Sport And Exercise Psychology: A Critical Introduction

“cohesiveness”)—or the extent to which a group of athletes or players is united by a common purpose and bonds together in pursui ...

clubs. Often, this type of social bonding led to enhanced team performance. Thus the former Liverpool player Alan Hansen was ama ...

captured by an old Irish proverb which states “ní neart go cur le chéile” or “there is no strength without unity”. An example of ...

Figure 7.1 Team spirit helped the European team to victory over the USA in the 2002 Ryder Cup Source: courtesy of Inpho Photogra ...

Figure 7.2 Strained relations between captain and manager. Roy Keane and Mick McCarthy shake hands but avoid eye-contact Source: ...

Although there are two sides to this incident (e.g., why did the manager not try to resolve his differences with his captain pri ...

construct emerges from two kinds of perceptions: those arising from members’ perceptions of the group as a totality (“group inte ...

importance for team performance can be gauged from the variety of contexts in which it has been studied, such as in military set ...

return to this thorny issue of how to select the most appropriate unit of analysis (group or individual) when studying cohesion ...

By contrast with the preceding measures, the “Group Environment Questionnaire” (GEQ; Carron, Widmeyer and Brawley, 1985) has bec ...

(1996) replicated Carron’s four-factor model in their analysis of cohesion processes in baseball and softball players, Dyce and ...

tended to pass the ball disproportionately often to each other—often to the relative neglect of team efficacy. But in general, w ...

others discovered negative relationships between these two variables (e.g., see Landers and Luschen, 1974). Nevertheless, resear ...

experience greater cohesiveness after successful performance maybe even stronger” (p. 222, italics mine). If this is so, then pe ...

variable on another variable across many different studies and samples (see Hunt, 1997, for a good introduction to this techniqu ...

cohesiveness. These factors were clear and meaningful roles (e.g., in mid-season, some of the teams’ midfield players wanted to ...

studies reported in the March 1997 special issue of the Journal of Applied Sport Psychology (Hardy and Grace, 1997). From the re ...

According to Mullen and Copper (1994), the three most important dimensions of cohesion are interpersonal attraction, commitment ...

Box 7.3 Thinking critically about...direct team-building interventions Yukelson (1997) recommended a number of practical techniq ...

Incidentally, the late Don Revie was ahead of his time in extolling the psychological value of bingo because recent research by ...