Emerging positive education intervention for clean sport behavior

Doping damages athletes’ physical health and sports integrity, replacing fair competition with a false feeling of strength. Besides, young athletes are more prone to harmful behaviors when they do not have a solid ethical basis to guide them. Therefore, this study aims to assess the effectiveness of positive education intervention to focus on teaching them important lessons about fair play and value of competition while enhance the sports values and favorable attitudes towards doping. A total of 40 young athletes were included in this study. A true-experiment pre-test post-test with control group design was conducted at Malaysia National Sport School. Experiment group has been given positive education intervention, while control group has not been given anything The result indicates that clean sport likelihood, sport values, and knowledge about doping improved in experimental group compared to control group.

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