Abstract
This study aimed to clarify the factors that facilitate and disturb fair play among collegiate athletes, and to exploratorily examine the relationships among each of them. Text data on the factors facilitating and disturbing fair play for collegiate athletes were collected. Then, the data was organized, summarized and illustrated using the KJ method. Data from 137 participants (mean age = 18.49 ± 1.68 years) yielded 121 answers about fair play facilitating factors and 142 answers about fair play disturbing factors. Results show that seven large categories were obtained as the fair play facilitating factors, and six large categories were obtained as the fair play disturbing factors. As for facilitation factors, it was clarified that it was important to have compatible “fair play spirit” with “psychological factors to facilitate self-control”, and factors that are expected to be related to these two factors were identified. In addition, regarding disturbing factors of fair play, it was found that several disturbing factors have led to “psychological factors that disturb self-control.” In other words, it was suggested that unfair play was caused by the lack of self-control.
