Key players in sport teams. An exploratory study on the effects of attachment styles on intra-team relational networks
| Autor: | Roland Seiler, Helga Dizdari |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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biology
Social network Athletes business.industry media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences Perspective (graphical) Exploratory research 790 Sports games & entertainment 030229 sport sciences biology.organism_classification 050105 experimental psychology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Dynamics (music) Attachment theory Personality 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 150 Psychology Psychology Centrality business Social psychology Applied Psychology media_common |
| Zdroj: | Psychology of Sport and Exercise. 51:101798 |
| ISSN: | 1469-0292 |
| Popis: | Relationship issues in sport are considered vital for the overall wellbeing of athletes (Jowett, 2005). The way athletes interact, create and maintain relationships is thought to be powerfully influenced by the athletes' attachment states of mind (Thomson & Jaque, 2018). To our knowledge, no study so far has investigated the impact players' attachment styles, as personality dispositions, have on overall intra-team relationship dynamics. This paper examines intra-team social relational networks from the perspective of adult attachment theory. Cross-sectional data were collected from 10 sport teams (158 players) from different sports. Self-report data were collected to assess attachment style and social relationships with teammates. Social network analyses (SNA) were used to calculate players' centrality scores based on incoming and outgoing relational nominations. Multilevel linear analysis was further performed to check inferential relationships between the study variables. Data showed that attachment styles of players, as personality dispositions, affected partly centrality degree positions within the various team social relational networks. The study offers an innovative perspective on the interactional and dynamic world of social relationships in sports teams and confirms that attachment style differences among players predispose them to particular positions within the team social relational networks. Although the current research has an exploratory character, it shows a new direction in the study of groups and sport team dynamics. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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