The perception of team environment: The relationship between the psychological climate and members’ perceived effort in high-performance groups.

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between perceptions of psychological climate in ice hockey players and self-reported effort. A modified version of the Psychological Climate Questionnaire (Brown & Leigh, 1996) and a measure of self-reported effort were given to 160 players from 8 teams during the last week of the regular schedule. Given the hierarchical nature of the data, multilevel modeling was used to examine the relationship between perceived effort and 5 subscales of psychological climate (Role Clarity, Contribution, Supportive Management, Challenge, and Self-Expression). Two of the subscales (Role Clarity and Self-Expression) significantly predicted perceived effort (ps Ͻ.01). Overall, 18% of the variance in perceived effort was accounted for by climate. These findings provide preliminary support for the idea that the psychological meaning that individuals associate with various aspects of their team environment are linked to the effort an athlete reports exerting over a season.

Mental Health In Elite Athletes: Increased Awareness Requires An Early Intervention Framework to Respond to Athlete Needs

“…Program evaluation should ideally adopt an ecological systems approach to account for competition-related, individual-vulnerability and organisational factors on mental health outcomes, for example by seeking to measure system-level variables (e.g. the degree of perceived psychological safety within the sporting organisation [62, 63]) and individual athlete-level variables (e.g. coping skills, relationship with coach, injury history).…”

Percepción de los deportistas sobre el estilo de liderazgo de los entrenadores y la tendencia a cooperar en equipos competitivos

“…Additionally, sportive cooperation can also be understood as a form of prosocial behavior that reflects the player's individual decisions concerning the dedication of his or her efforts and technical skills to the team's objective (Almeida & Lameiras, 2013;García-Mas et al, 2006;Lameiras, Almeida, & García-Mas, 2014). In this sense, and due to their influence, coaches' leadership styles shape the environment in which athletes carry out their responsibilities and personal effort, and may influence athletes' cooperative (thus prosocial) behaviors (Sarı, Ilić, & Ljubojević, 2013;Spink, Wilson, Brawley, & Odnokon, 2013). García-Mas et al (2006) proposed a conceptual framework which is based on the assumption that the observable of players' behaviors will be in part dependent on its decision to cooperate or not regarding a common goal.…”

Testing boundary conditions in the communication–cohesion relationship in team sport: The case for psychological safety.

“…Perceptions of psychological safety were measured using scales from the Psychological Climate Questionnaire (PCQ; Brown & Leigh, 1996) as adapted for the sport context (Spink et al, 2013). Specifically, the psychological safety factor was comprised of three scales: supportive management (4 items; e.g., I can trust my coach to back me up on decisions I make in competition ; α = .91), role clarity (3 items; e.g., The coach makes it perfectly clear how my job is to be done ; α = .89), and self-expression (3 items; e.g., I feel free to be completely myself around the team ; α = .89).…”

“…Drawing on the conceptualization of Brown and Leigh (1996), psychological safety was viewed as a multidimensional construct comprised of three underlying dimensions—supportive management, role clarity, and self-expression. Based on literature from organizational psychology (see Edmondson & Lei, 2014 for a review) and preliminary research in sport (Fransen et al, 2020; Spink et al, 2013), it was hypothesized that psychological safety (as informed by these three dimensions) would moderate the positive association between cooperative communication among teammates and perceptions of task cohesion. Specifically, we anticipated that no relationship would emerge between cooperative communication and perceived task cohesion when athletes perceived higher levels of psychological safety within their teams.…”