As club sports become more prominent at the university and youth sport levels, it is important to investigate their effects on students’ moral reasoning as this may further support the existence of these programs as going beyond simply building sport skills. Even though there have been numerous studies suggesting that individuals’ moral reasoning differs between sport and everyday contexts, it is still not understood if influences on moral reasoning in sport are associated with different levels of moral reasoning in everyday life. This study sought to determine if athlete moral decisions in parallel moral dilemmas were treated the same in their outcome decision making. The results of this study suggest that as club sport athletes progress through their time in school, their moral reasoning in sport progresses to a higher level and becomes more similar to their moral reasoning in daily life situations. This contradicts previous studies in collegiate varsity athletics that have suggested that athletes’ moral reasoning in sport situations decreases as they get older.
Orem et al. (Thu,) studied this question.