Why They Juice

The Role of Social Forces in Performance Enhancing Drug Use by Professional Athletes

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9956963
AutoresJoshua Murray (Vanderbilt University, autor de correspondencia), A Van De Rijt (0000-0002-4208-3452, Stony Brook University), John M Shandra (Stony Brook University)
Año2013
Volumen46
Número4
Páginas281-294
Fecha de publicación2013-10-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociological Focus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0237 • E-ISSN: 2162-1128
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00380237.2013.825832
OpenAlexW1990078838
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas29

Why do some athletes use performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs), while others opt not to use? Past research has focused on individual player attributes associated with PED use, but has left social factors unstudied. Utilizing novel datasets on PED use in Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) and Major League Baseball (MLB), we explore the role that social forces play in PED use in pro sports. We find that PED use is concentrated in certain teams, that teams experience team-specific periods of heightened drug use, and that clean MLB players who transfer to a new team with PED users on it are more likely to begin using PEDs than those who transfer to a clean team. While we stress the limitations to the use of observational data on PED use (most significantly, false negatives), we take these findings to suggest that an athlete's decision to use PEDs is, to an important degree, determined by the immediate social environment

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