Combative sport and warfare: a reappraisal of the spillover and catharsis hypotheses

Individual combative sports will be positively associated with frequency of individual and socially organized homicide in a society (256)

Test
Test Name	Support	Significance	Coefficient	Tail
Chi square	`UNKNOWN`	p<.05	Gamma=.56 for individual homicide; .67 for socially organized	`UNKNOWN`

Variables
Variable Name	Variable Type	OCM Term(s)
Combative Sports, Individual	Association	Games, Gambling, Athletic Sports
Homicide	Association	Offenses Against Life

Main Author	Published Year	Hypothesis	Supported	Variables Tested
Chick, Garry	1997	Following Sipes' methods as closely as possible, authors predicted that combative sports, both team and individual, will be positively associated with external warfare (255-56)	Not Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Chick, Garry	1997	Warfare of all types (external, internal and overall) will be negatively related to proportion of noncombative sports and positively related to proportion of individual combative sports, team combative sports, and sham combats.	Partially supported	4	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Chick, Garry	1997	Using all frequencies of external war, combative sports, both team and individual, as well as sham combats, will be positively associated with external warfare (256)	Partially supported	3	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Sipes, Richard G.	1973	"Culture Pattern Model: A direct synchronic relationship between war and combative sports will be found, with more warlike societies more likely to have these sports and less warlike societies less likely to have them" (67)	Supported	2	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author
Chick, Garry	2001	Toughness variables will be positively related to each other (8)	Supported	1	Cite Related Hypotheses More By Author