Sport Spectatorship

There are many factors that come under observation when studying crowd composition. The crowd differs in many characteristics such as age, male/female ratio, socioeconomic level, race, ethnic background, personality, geography, and education. It is not only these traits that we must look at, but we must also consider that composition will vary according to varying environments. For example, the composition at different sports is likely to differ dramatically. Obviously the composition at an ice skating tournament is not likely to consist of as many young rowdy males that you might expect to see at the football or cricket. Differences in composition also occur according to importance, venue or timing of the event (i.e. Finals versus regular season mat

Russel, Di Lullo & Di Lullo (1989), showed viewers either a violent hockey game or fast paced competitive game. One group of subjects had been shown individually a fourteen-minute videotape of a skillfully played hockey game with no aggressive incidents, and the other group a fight filled game. They then examined the response of the male subjects by completing a set of scales designed to assess their current mood state. Increases in aggression resulted, but these were confined only to the angered subjects viewing the film of hockey brawls.

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