Cliques in Sport: Perceptions of Intercollegiate Athletes

Martin, Luc J.; Wilson, Jessi; Evans, M. Blair; Spink, Kevin S.

doi:10.1123/tsp.2014-0003

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“…Despite the fact that the development of friendship groups is a normal part of sport and adolescent life (Martin et al, 2015), in this study, there was a strong discordance between coach/parent and athlete views of social media and electronic communication, with coaches and parents referring to social media subgroups as cliques. Parent and coaches' concerns are warranted, as there is some evidence that social media can have a negative impact on adolescent relationships with consequences such as cyberbullying and social isolation (Allen et al, 2014;Valkenburg & Peter, 2013).…”

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A Qualitative Study of Social Media and Electronic Communication among Canadian Adolescent Female Soccer Players

Dunn

Kim

Poucher

et al. 2021

Journal of Adolescent Research

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Social media and electronic communication perpetuate adolescents’ lives and have the potential to shape the nature of adolescent athletes’ experiences and interactions with members of their sports teams. However, there is no research to date that has examined adolescent female athletes’ use of social media and electronic communication. Athletes, parents, and coaches (N = 22) from one soccer organization participated in semistructured interviews discussing their use of and perspectives on social media and electronic communication. Interview data were analyzed using qualitative content analysis. Findings include four themes: (a) uses of social media and electronic communication (in and out of the sport context); (b) athlete, parent, and coaches’ perspectives of social media engagement; (c) friendships and trust with teammates; and (d) the development and perception of subgroups. Recommendations include developing policies for the use of social media and electronic communication for adolescents in sports settings and for coaches, parents, and athletes to engage in open communication about the uses of social media and electronic communication.

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A Qualitative Study of Social Media and Electronic Communication among Canadian Adolescent Female Soccer Players

Dunn

Kim

Poucher

et al. 2021

Journal of Adolescent Research

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“…The authors also reported the connotation of cliques as negative subgroups. Based on the previous findings identifying the potential for subgroups to be inclusive or problematic demonstrating exclusionary behaviours resulting in the debilitative outcomes to the individual and team (Martin et al, 2015), the off-ice and clique findings reported by the female athletes in the present study were problematic decreasing ingroup ties.…”

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confidence: 53%

“…The presence of greater covert, verbal antisocial behaviour and cliques in females particularly in off-ice settings and cliques was also particularly notable in conjunction with recent work on the facilitative and debilitative consequences of subgroups in sport (Martin, Evans, & Spink, 2016;Martin, Wilson, Evans, & Spink, 2015). In their discussion of coaches' and athletes' perceptions of subgroups, Martin and colleagues (2015) identified both positive (e.g., motivation, support) and negative outcomes associated with subgroups.…”

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Examining social identity and intrateam moral behaviours in competitive youth ice hockey using stimulated recall

Bruner

Boardley

Allan

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Journal of Sports Sciences

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Social identity - identity formed through membership in groups - may play an important role in regulating intrateam moral behaviour in youth sport (Bruner, M. W., Boardley, I., & Côté, J. (2014). Social identity and prosocial and antisocial behavior in youth sport. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 15(1), 56-64. doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2013.09.003). The aim of this study was to qualitatively examine this potential role through stimulated recall interviews with competitive youth-ice-hockey players. Twenty-three players (M = 13.27 years, SD = 1.79) who reported engaging in high, median or low frequency of antisocial teammate behaviour (determined through pre-screening with the Prosocial and Antisocial Behaviour in Sport Scale [Kavussanu, M., & Boardley, I. D. (2009). The prosocial and antisocial behavior in sport scale. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 31(1), 97-117. doi:10.1123/jsep.31.1.97]) were recruited from eight youth-ice-hockey teams in Canada. Interviews involved participants recalling their thoughts during prosocial/antisocial interactions with teammates, prompted by previously recorded video sequences of such incidents. Thematic analysis of interview data revealed all athletes - regardless of reported frequency of intrateam antisocial behaviour - felt prosocial interactions with teammates enhanced social identity. In contrast, the perceived influence of antisocial teammate behaviour on social identity differed depending on athletes' reported frequency of intrateam antisocial behaviour; those reporting low and median frequencies described how such behaviour undermines social identity, whereas athletes reporting high frequency did not perceive this effect. The study findings highlight the potential importance of intrateam moral behaviour and social identity for youth-sport team functioning.

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“…First, how might the presence of cliques within a sport team (e.g., Martin, Evans, & Spink, 2016; Martin, Wilson, Evans, & Spink, 2015) impact perceived intrateam communication? For example, the presence of cliques within a team may limit the communication outside of one’s subgroup within the larger team or alter the way communication is perceived inside and outside of the same clique.…”

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Team Member Communication and Perceived Cohesion in Youth Soccer

McLaren

Spink

2016

Communication & Sport

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Although it is assumed that athletes need to consider the member-to-member interactions that take place within a team before drawing an accurate perception about the team’s level of cohesion, little research to date has addressed this assumption. The purpose of this study was to examine the intrateam communication and cohesion relationship to determine which types of communication would be associated with perceived task and social cohesiveness in a sample of youth athletes. Youth soccer players ( N = 139, k = 13) completed measures of intrateam communication and task and social cohesion halfway through a competitive season. Separate multilevel analyses were run predicting task and social cohesion. For task cohesion, acceptance, positive conflict, and negative conflict communication emerged as significant predictors, p < .001, accounting for 40% of the total variance. For social cohesion, distinctiveness, positive conflict, and negative conflict communication were significant predictors, p < .001, accounting for 27% of the total variance. Findings provide initial evidence establishing a link between intrateam communication and cohesion in the youth sport context but more importantly suggest both similarities and differences with respect to the specific types of intrateam communication that are associated with task and social cohesion.

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Cliques in Sport: Perceptions of Intercollegiate Athletes

Cited by 26 publications

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A Qualitative Study of Social Media and Electronic Communication among Canadian Adolescent Female Soccer Players

A Qualitative Study of Social Media and Electronic Communication among Canadian Adolescent Female Soccer Players

Examining social identity and intrateam moral behaviours in competitive youth ice hockey using stimulated recall

Team Member Communication and Perceived Cohesion in Youth Soccer

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