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A psychosocial reading of sport actors’ antisocial behaviours : the influence of identity processes

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This doctoral work is interested in stakeholder’s antisocial behaviors. This phenomenon is approached by means of the theories bound to the social categorization, and more precisely, the social identity approach and the conception of the social partitions. Following this theoretical development, two mainstudies were led, the second one drawing from the first. A third study was led to reinject the acquired knowledge in the field.The first study, articulating around five sub-studies, aimed at determining the content, the perceived causes, as well as the perceived consequences, of sport stakeholders’ antisocial behaviors. Regarding the content of antisocial behaviors, harm and disadvantage aspects are brought to light. Besides, the relation between sport actors and specific states of mind are emphasized. On another note, perceived causes refer to the sport environment overloaded by competitivity and the search for social value, to affects, and to individual stable characteristics. Finaly, perceived consequences refer to anger affects for targets or observers, to negative judgement of value and lack of understanding for observers, and to a will to oppose for targets and observers, in addition to a disengagement of the sport activity for the targets. Drawing from the relational aspect of the results, the second study offer, with the RepMut tool, a mapping of parents – coach and athletes – coach intergroup relation, as well as a mapping of this last setting when these social categories are threatened or supported. Results show a solid, and ambiguous, relational structure, for which group norms associated with identity conflicts, while indivuduals attempt to get closer to the exogroup. When coach or athletes are threatened, structure can still be seen, and results show that normal relations tend to be similar to the threatened conditions. Lastly, relations are strongly tainted by pleasant affects, and weakly by unpleasant ones. The two groups are responsible of that, highlighting the ambiguity of these relations in a sport context. At last, third study evaluated the efficiency of a training on coaches regarding antisocial behaviors. This study was disrupted by event bound to COVID-19 events, but we still deliver the results and the tools used for.In conclusion, this doctoral work shows that in the sport context, the relation aspect between sport stakeholders is important regarding antisocial behaviors. In this sport context, the coach seems to possess a beneficial position.