Kimberly Farzan

Kimberly Farzan


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Academic Career Length

5Years (2022-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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7 August 2022 in Social Sciences
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Nicolette Schipper van VeldhovenNicolette Schipper van Veldhoven
Nicolette Schipper van Veldhoven
JMJoris Mulder
Joris Mulder
BCBoukje Cuelenaere
Boukje Cuelenaere
RZRobbert Zandvliet
Robbert Zandvliet
KFKimberly Farzan
Kimberly Farzan
MRMiriam Reijnen
Miriam Reijnen
The current article reports on the second large-scale prevalence study on transgressive behavior in sport in the Netherlands, and is a follow up of an earlier, comparable prevalence study in 2015. Using a dedicated and customized online questionnaire, approximately 4000 adults who met the inclusion criteria (18 to 50 years old and have played sports in an organized context during childhood in the Netherlands) were surveyed with respect to their experiences of childhood psychological, physical, and sexual transgressive behavior while playing sports. The survey showed that 71.7% experienced some form of transgressive behavior as a child, in which 48.6% of these events also made an impact (in other words, was significant at the time it took place). The degree of impact the event made is also related to the severity of the event. Severe emotional transgression events occurred in 22% of the youth athletes, severe physical assault events in 12.7%, and severe sexual assault events occurred in 6.9% of the youth athletes. Disabled athletes, and those competing at national and international levels, report more experiences of transgressive behavior in sport. The results are consistent with former research and indicate the need for structural attention to create a safe sports climate.