نبذة مختصرة : Sport-related match-fixing is the most prevalent type of match-fixing in amateur sports. However, little is known about the factors that influence sportspersons to participate in it, despite its negative consequences on the integrity of sports competitions. In this study, a factorial survey design was used to identify the strongest risk factors playing a role in sportspersons’ positive decision-making toward sport-related match-fixing. To this end, six situational factors based on the Situational Crime Prevention theory were included in realistic vignettes, and five dispositional/personal factors were measured through an ordinal answer scale. The factorial survey was distributed to amateur football and tennis players (a team sport and an individual sport) in Flanders (i.e., the Dutch speaking part of Belgium) between October and December 2021. In total, 661 football players and 609 tennis players filled in our survey. Our results indicate that dispositional/personal factors such as moral judgment, social norms, and one’s moral emotion in the face of match-fixing are the strongest factors predicting self-reported behavioral intention to participate in sport-related match-fixing in both sports. These results show that moral education of sportspersons might be a more efficient prevention strategy than situational prevention initiatives working for instance on the rewards associated with match-fixing.
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