Relationships between cohesion, collective efficacy and performance in professional basketball teams : an examination of mediating effects
Deutscher übersetzter Titel: | Beziehungen zwischen Kohäsion, Geimeinschaftsgefühl und Leistung in professionellen Basketball-Mannschaften : eine bespielhafte Anwendung der Mediation |
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Autor: | Heuzé, Jean-Philippe; Raimbault, Nicolas; Fontayne, Paul |
Erschienen in: | Journal of sports sciences |
Veröffentlicht: | 24 (2006), 1, S. 59-68, Lit. |
Format: | Literatur (SPOLIT) |
Publikationstyp: | Zeitschriftenartikel |
Medienart: | Gedruckte Ressource |
Sprache: | Englisch |
ISSN: | 0264-0414, 1466-447X |
DOI: | 10.1080/02640410500127736 |
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Erfassungsnummer: | PU201311008077 |
Quelle: | BISp |
Abstract
The main aim of this study was to examine mediating effects in the relationships between cohesion, collective efficacy and performance in professional basketball teams. A secondary aim was to examine the correlates of collective efficacy in a professional sport. A total of 154 French and foreign professional players completed French or English versions of questionnaires about cohesion and collective efficacy. Two composite measures of individual performance were used (preand post-performance). Individual-level analyses were performed. Regression analyses supported two mediating relationships with collective efficacy as a mediator of the pre-performance – Group integration-task relationship, and Group integration-task as a mediator of the pre-performance – collective efficacy relationship. Statistical analyses indicated that neither Group integration-task nor collective efficacy was a better mediator in the relationship between pre-performance and the other group variables. Results also revealed positive relationships between three dimensions of cohesion (i.e. Individual attractions to the group-task, Group integration-task, Group integration-social) and collective efficacy. These findings suggest that in professional basketball teams, staff members should look after athletes who perform at a lower or below their usual level because their performances might lead them into a downward cohesion – collective efficacy spiral. Staff members should also develop a high quality of group functioning, both on and off the basketball court, given its relationship with collective efficacy. Verf.-Referat