Do perceived justice and need support of the coach predict team identification and cohesion? Testing their relative importance among top volleyball and handball players in Belgium and Norway

Backer, Manu De; Boen, Filip; Ceux, Tanja; Cuyper, Bert De; Høigaard, Rune; Callens, Fien; Fransen, Katrien; Broek, Gert Vande

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2010.09.009

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“…Our findings reveal that if coaches and athlete leaders increase their competence‐support, team members’ performance is immediately enhanced. This finding corroborates the general literature on how both coaches and athlete leaders can affect performance. However, the present study also provides some novel insights.…”

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An experiment on the impact of coaches’ and athlete leaders’ competence support on athletes’ motivation and performance

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Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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An experiment on the impact of coaches’ and athlete leaders’ competence support on athletes’ motivation and performance

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“…As we have noted, considerable research has applied this approach to the study of fans [73,78,158]. In addition, research has drawn upon social identity theorizing to understand how fans and players deal with changes to a club's overall structure [159], how fans' identification with teams is influenced by the 'unscrupulous' acts of athletes [75], and how identity is formed in teams [160][161][162]. Related research also points to the significance of athletic [163][164][165][166][167][168][169][170] and exercise [171][172][173] identity, and this has fed into research that draws on notions of social identity to understand both exercise behaviour [174] and health behaviour [175], as well as event participation (e.g., in the Gay Games [176]).…”

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A Social Identity Approach to Sport Psychology: Principles, Practice, and Prospects

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Drawing on social identity theory and self-categorization theory, we outline an approach to sport psychology that understands groups not simply as features of sporting contexts but rather as elements that can be, and often are, incorporated into a person's sense of self and, through this, become powerful determinants of their sport-related behavior. The underpinnings of this social identity approach are outlined, and four key lessons for sport that are indicative of the analytical and practical power of the approach are presented. These suggest that social identity is the basis for sports group (1) behavior, (2) formation and development, (3) support and stress appraisal, and (4) leadership. Building on recent developments within sport science, we outline an agenda for future research by identifying a range of topics to which the social identity approach could fruitfully contribute. Key Points• We outline a social identity approach to sport psychology based upon social identity and self-categorization theories.• We argue that this approach has the potential to make a significant, unique, and powerful contribution to the analysis of an array of phenomena and behaviors that are at the heart of sport and sport psychology.• In particular, the approach offers a comprehensive analysis of the ways in which individual psychology both structures, and is structured by, the dynamics of group life; this involves seeing groups not simply as features of sporting contexts but rather as elements that can be, and often are, incorporated into a person's sense of self and, through this, become powerful determinants of their sport-related behavior.

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“…Based on previous research (Boen, Vanbeselaere, Brebels, Huybens, & Millet, 2007;Doosje, Ellemers, & Spears, 1995) team identification was measured using the same five items for players and coaches; "Being a member of the team is very important for me", "I am very proud to be a member of this team", "I am very happy that I belong to this team", "I feel very connected with this team", and "I identify strongly with this team". This measure was previously used to assess the team identification of 16-to 36-years old elite level volleyball and handball players and was demonstrated to be a highly internally consistent scale (De Backer et al, 2011). Participants assessed these items on a 7-point scale anchored by -3 (strongly disagree) and 3 (strongly agree).…”

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The Impact of Athlete Leaders on Team Members’ Team Outcome Confidence: A Test of Mediation by Team Identification and Collective Efficacy

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The Sport Psychologist

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Research on the effect of athlete leadership on pre-cursors of team performance such as team confidence is sparse. To explore the underlying mechanisms of how athlete leaders impact their team's confidence, an online survey was completed by 2,867 players and coaches from nine different team sports in Flanders (Belgium). We distinguished between two types of team confidence: collective efficacy, assessed by the CEQS subscales of Effort, Persistence, Preparation, and Unity; and team outcome confidence, measured by the Ability subscale. The results demonstrated that the perceived quality of athlete leaders was positively related to participants' team outcome confidence. The present findings are the first in sport settings to highlight the potential value of collective efficacy and team identification as underlying processes. Because high-quality leaders strengthen team members' identification with the team, the current study also provides initial evidence for the applicability of the identity based leadership approach in sport settings.Keywords: peer leaders, leadership, winning confidence, social identity approach, coaching, The most talented group of players does not always win a sports game. What matters is how well these players function as a team. In order to optimize this team functioning, effective leadership has been proposed as a crucial determinant (Cotterill, 2013). Although research in sport has typically focused on leadership of the coach (Chelladurai, 2007), recent research has established the importance of high-quality athlete leaders for the effective functioning of sports teams (Price & Weiss, 2011, 2013. In this regard, athletes are an important, but so far underinvestigated, source of leadership within sports teams.Building upon earlier work (Carron, Hausenblas, & Eys, 2005;Kogler Hill, 2001), Loughead and colleagues (2006) proposed a three-factor classification of athlete leadership functions: (1) task functions, which help the team to achieve its goal (e.g., giving teammates tactical advice); (2) social functions, which foster positive interactions between team members (e.g., caring for a good atmosphere off the field); and (3) external functions, which facilitate communication with people outside the team (e.g., with club management, media, and sponsors). Recently, empirical evidence has been reported for a fourth function, namely the motivational function (Fransen, Vanbeselaere, De Cuyper, Vande Broek, & Boen, 2014).The motivational leader is the best motivator on the field. This leader encourages his/her teammates to do their utmost, and initiates fresh heart into players who are discouraged.Although previous research on athlete leadership mainly focused on the team captain as the formal leader of the team, recent empirical evidence demonstrated that informal leaders rather than the captain take the lead, both on and off the field . We will therefore focus on the leadership quality of the best athlete leader on each of the four leadership roles instead of investigating the leadershi...

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Do perceived justice and need support of the coach predict team identification and cohesion? Testing their relative importance among top volleyball and handball players in Belgium and Norway

Cited by 68 publications

References 41 publications

An experiment on the impact of coaches’ and athlete leaders’ competence support on athletes’ motivation and performance

An experiment on the impact of coaches’ and athlete leaders’ competence support on athletes’ motivation and performance

A Social Identity Approach to Sport Psychology: Principles, Practice, and Prospects

The Impact of Athlete Leaders on Team Members’ Team Outcome Confidence: A Test of Mediation by Team Identification and Collective Efficacy

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