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I investigated the status of corporal punishment in Japanese high school athletic clubs and the
students' evaluative awareness of this practice. I also examined the relationship between this
awareness and the emotions and thoughts resulting from experiencing corporal punishment from
instructors during club activities. One hundred eighty-eight female college athletes volunteered to
participate in the study. They were asked to complete retrospective questionnaires about the details of
their corporal punishment, their tolerance of corporal punishment, the need for it in athletic club
activities, and so on. Descriptive statistics, t-test, and one-way analysis of variance revealed that: more
than half of all female college athletes had experienced corporal punishment during high school club
activities; the principal punishment they had received was to be painfully slapped or beaten, or both,
with tools (e.g. a strategy board, stopwatch, or PET bottle); corporal punishment occurred more in
team-sport-club activities than non-team-sport-club activities; many athletes considered corporal
punishment to be permissible, but they had no clear thoughts regarding the need for it; after receiving
corporal punishment, the athletes who had a positive view of its value developed affirmative feelings
and recognized that such treatment was necessary; it was likely that the frequency of corporal
punishment experiences was irrelevant to the team performance level in competition.
