the moral reasoning of student athletes and athletic training students

4. Designer Drugs – A drug produced by the minor modification of an existing drug
resulting in a new substance with similar pharmacological effects. Often created to
achieve the same effect as a controlled or illegal drug.
5. Doping – The illegal use of drugs or methods of physiological manipulation to
improve athletic performance.
6. Ergogenic Aids Moral Competence Inventory – An inventory type instrument used to
measure levels of moral reasoning using deontological moral theory by presenting
dilemmas specifically related to the practice of doping in sport.
7. Hahm-Beller Values Choice Inventory – An instrument designed in deontological
moral theory to examine moral reasoning in sort using commonly occurring sport
moral issues.
8. Moral Reasoning – “The ability to think systematically through a moral problem
taking into consideration ones’ own values and beliefs while weighing them against
what others and society values and believes.” (Lumpkin, Stoll, and Beller, 1999, p.1)
9. Moral Values – “Values informed by criteria of prescriptivity, impersonality, and
universality.” (Shields and Bredemeier, 1995, p. 18) For this study the moral values
will be defined as universal values such as justice, honesty, responsibility, respect and
fairness.
10. Social Values – Values put forth by the American society as important. Examples
include cooperation, loyalty, commitment, dedication, and sacrifice. (Rudd, 1998)
11. Student athletes – students currently participating in a Division I varsity sport at a
member institution of the National Collegiate Athletics Association.
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