TY - JOUR A1 - Berner, Elisabeth A1 - Szymanski, Birgit A1 - Elbe, Anne-Marie T1 - "Ick sprech doch Dialekt - oder wat sonst" : Varietätenspektrum und Sprachbewußtsein im Brandenburgischen Y1 - 1997 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Strahler, Katharina A1 - Elbe, Anne-Marie T1 - Entwicklung einer Skala zur Erfassung psychogenen Harnverhaltens bei Athletinnen und Athleten während der Dopingkontrollen Y1 - 2009 UR - http://psycontent.metapress.com/content/1612-5010/ U6 - https://doi.org/10.1026/1612-5010.16.4.156 SN - 1612-5010 ER - TY - INPR A1 - Petroczi, Andrea A1 - Backhouse, Susan H. A1 - Barkoukis, Vassilis A1 - Brand, Ralf A1 - Elbe, Anne-Marie A1 - Lazuras, Larnbros A1 - Lucidi, Fabio T1 - A call for policy guidance on psychometric testing in doping control in sport T2 - International journal of drug policy N2 - One of the fundamental challenges in anti-doping is identifying athletes who use, or are at risk of using, prohibited performance enhancing substances. The growing trend to employ a forensic approach to doping control aims to integrate information from social sciences (e.g., psychology of doping) into organised intelligence to protect clean sport. Beyond the foreseeable consequences of a positive identification as a doping user, this task is further complicated by the discrepancy between what constitutes a doping offence in the World Anti-Doping Code and operationalized in doping research. Whilst psychology plays an important role in developing our understanding of doping behaviour in order to inform intervention and prevention, its contribution to the array of doping diagnostic tools is still in its infancy. In both research and forensic settings, we must acknowledge that (1) socially desirable responding confounds self-reported psychometric test results and (2) that the cognitive complexity surrounding test performance means that the response-time based measures and the lie detector tests for revealing concealed life-events (e.g., doping use) are prone to produce false or non-interpretable outcomes in field settings. Differences in social-cognitive characteristics of doping behaviour that are tested at group level (doping users vs. non-users) cannot be extrapolated to individuals; nor these psychometric measures used for individual diagnostics. In this paper, we present a position statement calling for policy guidance on appropriate use of psychometric assessments in the pursuit of clean sport. We argue that, to date, both self-reported and response-time based psychometric tests for doping have been designed, tested and validated to explore how athletes feel and think about doping in order to develop a better understanding of doping behaviour, not to establish evidence for doping. A false 'positive' psychological profile for doping affects not only the individual 'clean' athlete but also their entourage, their organisation and sport itself. The proposed policy guidance aims to protect the global athletic community against social, ethical and legal consequences from potential misuse of psychological tests, including erroneous or incompetent applications as forensic diagnostic tools in both practice and research. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. KW - Prohibited performance enhancement KW - Athlete KW - Drug KW - Anti-doping KW - Attitude Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.04.022 SN - 0955-3959 SN - 1873-4758 VL - 26 IS - 11 SP - 1130 EP - 1139 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - INPR A1 - Petroczi, Andrea A1 - Backhouse, Susan H. A1 - Barkoukis, Vassilis A1 - Brand, Ralf A1 - Elbe, Anne-Marie A1 - Lazuras, Lambros A1 - Lucidi, Fabio T1 - A matter of mind-set in the interpretation of forensic application T2 - International journal of drug policy Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.drugpo.2015.06.007 SN - 0955-3959 SN - 1873-4758 VL - 26 IS - 11 SP - 1142 EP - 1143 PB - Elsevier CY - Amsterdam ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Elbe, Anne-Marie A1 - Brand, Ralf T1 - Attitudes Toward Doping JF - Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology N2 - This article examines whether a training program in ethical decision making can change young athletes’ doping attitudes. Fifty-two young elite athletes were randomly assigned to either an ethical decision-making training group or a standard-knowledge-based educational program group. Another 17 young elite athletes were recruited for no-treatment control purposes. The ethical decision-making training comprised six 30-min online sessions in which the participants had to work through 18 ethical dilemmas related to doping. The standard-knowledge-based educational program was also conducted in six online sessions of comparable length to that of the ethical training. A short version of the Performance Enhancement Attitude Scale was administered to measure the effects of the trainings on doping attitude. Prior to as well as after the intervention, the mean doping attitude scores of the young athletes were low to very low, indicating vehement rejections of doping. The results of our experiment showed that the ethical training led to an attenuation of these rejections. No intervention effect was found in the standard education group. The observed slight increase in the doping attitude score could be an indication that the ethical decision-making training was successful in breaking up the athletes’ stereotypical style of reasoning about doping. KW - youth sport KW - antidoping KW - training program KW - effect evaluation Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/10508422.2014.976864 SN - 1050-8422 SN - 1532-7019 VL - 26 SP - 32 EP - 44 PB - Springer CY - Abingdon ER -