A team fares well with a fair coach: Predictors of social loafing in interactive female sport teams

Autor: G. Vande Broek, M. de Backer, B. De Cuyper, Rune Høigaard, Filip Boen
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports. 25:897-908
ISSN: 0905-7188
DOI: 10.1111/sms.12303
Popis: The present research aimed to develop and test a theoretical model that links players' perceived justice of the coach to a more optimal motivational climate, which in turn increases players' team identification and cohesion, and results in lower levels of social loafing in female sport teams. Belgian elite female basketball, volleyball, and football players (study 1; N = 259; M(age) = 22.6) and Norwegian world-class female handball players (study 2; N = 110; M(age) = 22.8) completed questionnaires assessing players' perceived justice (distributive and procedural), motivational climate, team identification, team cohesion (task and social), and social loafing (perceived and self-reported). In both studies, confirmatory and exploratory path analyses indicated that perceived justice was positively related to a mastery climate (P
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