Team identification and sports fandom as predictors of fan aggression: The moderating role of ageing

Toder‐Alon, Anat; Icekson, Tamar; Shuv-Ami, Avichai

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2018.02.002

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“…The current study purposefully focused on sports viewing interests and experiences of all older versus all younger adults. Toder-Alon et al (2019) demonstrated the importance of fandom and identification in self-reported aggression during sports viewing and the moderating role of age in this relationship. Although those researchers mainly looked at basketball fans, investigating the level of identification with sports teams/athletes may be particularly important in the context of age and life span research.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…As noted earlier, one study found an opposite trend—that older people watch more games compared to young adults and become more avid fans with age (Toder-Alon, Icekson, & Shuv-Ami, 2019). These findings suggest that age does not negatively affect sports interest for all adults and may result in stronger fanship for some.…”

Section: Age Emotion Regulation and Sports Media Viewingmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Older adults do not rely on this emotion regulation strategy as much since they prefer to, according to Gross’s model, control their emotions during the earlier stages of the process. Indeed, Toder-Alon, Icekson, and Shuv-Ami (2019) found that older sports fans show less aggression during and after a sports game.…”

Section: Age Emotion Regulation and Sports Media Viewingmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Role of Emotion Regulation and Age in Experiencing Mediated Sports

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Recent research indicates that sports fanship decreases with age. Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) posits that older adults, with time limited, shift their focus on positive experiences. Entertainment media choices reflect this proactive emotion regulation strategy. This study applied that perspective to mediated sports content, itself characterized by emotional intensity and unknown outcomes. Using an online survey containing an experimental condition ( N = 433), the current study investigated whether the unpredictability and emotional intensity of sports contribute to older people disengaging from viewing it. The results are mixed: Older adults consume less sports media than younger adults and value the outcome less but are equally likely to be sports fans or watch highly exciting sports contests. It seems that fanship may contribute to happiness for some and thus reflect an active choice. Future research should investigate individual differences among older sports fans and nonfans to expand knowledge on their (emotional) viewing experiences.

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2019

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“…Some studies suggest a connection between fandom and psychopathology. According to Toder-Alon, Icekson and Shuv-Ami [36], older fans reported higher levels of sports fandom and lower levels of self-reported aggression and acceptance of aggression; age moderated the relationships between team identification (or fandom) and self-reported aggression, team identification (or fandom) being more strongly associated with self-reported fan aggression among younger fans than among older fans. Violent groups have more symptoms of phobia, anxiety, depression, obsessive thoughts, somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, aggression, psychosis and self-esteem than non-violent groups, and these morbid symptoms are effective in the incidence of aggression [37].…”

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Comparing Psychopathological Symptoms in Portuguese Football Fans and Non-fans

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The present study aims to characterize football fans and non-fans and to compare their psychopathological symptoms with the latest normative values for the Portuguese population from Canavarro in 2007. Results showed that football fans and non-fans are mostly male, have an affective relationship, are childless, have secondary education or a high degree, and are employed or students; fans are more likely to be male, dating, unemployed, to have elementary education and be younger than non-fans. Football fans present significantly higher psychopathological symptoms than non-fans in somatization, interpersonal sensitivity, anxiety, hostility, paranoid ideation and psychoticism and all psychopathological indexes. Football fans present values very close to those of populations with emotional distress in hostility and are above the mean of the general population in obsession–compulsion, hostility, paranoid ideation and psychoticism.

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“…team support, meaning and belonging; Wann et al, 2017) and some negative factors (e.g. aggression; Toder-Alon et al, 2017). In exploring the influence of celebrity on fandoms, some tourism-oriented studies have found that celebrity fan involvement is positively related to visitation intentions (Lee et al, 2008).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Remembering the King: Understanding strategic management of and participation in Elvis’ Death Week

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This exploratory qualitative study looks at Death Week, the annual commemoration of Elvis Presley’s death at Graceland in Memphis, TN, as a uniquely important part of tourism-based strategic public relations with a specific focus on the distinctive needs and considerations for dark tourism. Graceland, the second-most visited private home in the United States, offers a unique perspective on relationship building and maintenance, where the focus is less on awareness of Graceland and Elvis, and more on the continuation and generation of relationships to maintain interest across generations. Interviews were conducted with three public relations practitioners connected to Memphis or Elvis Presley Enterprises and 17 Death Week Candlelight Vigil participants, to better understand the promotion, delivery, and evaluation of a dark tourism experience. The impact of neo-tribes, a specific type of fandom, is also discussed as an important factor in continual relationship building with Death Week participants. The article concludes with suggestions for deepening the theoretical connection between dark tourism and public relations, and offers best practices for practitioners engaged in dark tourism relationship building.

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Team identification and sports fandom as predictors of fan aggression: The moderating role of ageing

Cited by 43 publications

References 63 publications

The Role of Emotion Regulation and Age in Experiencing Mediated Sports

The Role of Emotion Regulation and Age in Experiencing Mediated Sports

Comparing Psychopathological Symptoms in Portuguese Football Fans and Non-fans

Remembering the King: Understanding strategic management of and participation in Elvis’ Death Week

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