NEGATIVE NEWS COVERAGE EFFECTIVE TO ADOLESCENCE As a lucrative and largely popular source of entertainment, professional sports motivate and inspire many individuals around the world. Some of these individuals, watch sports to improve because they participate in the sports themselves. Others simply enjoy sports because of the thrill, the solid feeling of excitement they get. However, the problem today is that sports turn out to give people less excitement when the emphases in the games are about the wages athletes get, what rank they are, and the support they receive from their fans. Athletes are perceived for their athletic accomplishments, and the word “athlete” can often be used interchangeably with words like hero, role model, or idol. Young fans’ admiration for a professional athlete starts from media outlets. Despite Charles Barkley’s famous statement of “I’m not a role model,” sports role models can shape adolescence demeanors and practices. Combined with the idea of self-concept this research offers a framework of how negative news coverage of popular athletes may affect the performance and self-esteem of adolescents. …show more content…
It can be conceived as a factual description of someone as opposed to biased opinions from others and self-esteem. A psychologist at the University of Bordeaux in France, Kamel Gana, researched the psychology of self-esteem and examined that “[s]elf-concept measure are based on self-report questionnaires, which suffer from two limitations: their sensitivity to self-presentation, and their inability to catch mental substance that is out of reach to reflection” (Gana, 2). The limitation is changing from the social cognition theory. This theory is study of how people make sense of others and themselves. It simulate scientific interest in self-concept as it is the study of procedures involved when individuals construct a keep up information about themselves and everyone around