“…Cohesion is one of the four most important motivational mechanisms in a team, together with collective mood or group emotion, collective efficacy, and conflict. Team cohesion is especially important for teams which rely on the communication and coordination of its members, and whose members depend on each other (Bell & Brown, 2015). It leads to increased satisfaction (Widmeyer & Williams, 1991), decreased pre-competition anxiety (Eys, Hardy, Carron, & Beauchamp, 2003), higher perceived performance, viability, and satisfaction (Tekleab, Quigley, & Tesluk 2009), as well as higher perceived self-efficacy (Marcos, Miguel, Oliva, & Calvo, 2010).…”