Collective Efficacy

Question 1

What is self efficacy?

Answer 1

Confidence in your abilities to complete a subset of activities to achieve a goal

Question 2

What are the main sources of self-efficacy?

Answer 2

Performance accomplishments
Vicarious experiences
Verbal persuasion
Physiological states - feeling of fatigue, high HR, breathing rate etc.

Question 3

What are the consequences of self-efficacy?

Answer 3

Try harder on tasks
Attribute success to ourselves
Decreased performance anxiety

Question 4

What is collective efficacy?

Answer 4

A groups confidence in their collective capabilities to perform collective tasks - Bandura, 1997

Question 5

What are the main sources of collective efficacy?

Answer 5

Past performance
Vicarious experience
Verbal persuasion
Group cohesion
Group size
Group leadership

Question 6

What is the relationship between group size and collective efficacy?

Answer 6

Negative relationship due to social loafing

Seen more at end of season - Watson 2001

Question 7

What is the impact of group cohesion on collective efficacy?

Answer 7

Higher group cohesion –> increased efficacy

Task cohesion have more impact than social cohesion on efficacy - Hueze et al 2006

Increase team resilience

Question 8

What aspects of group leadership are important in collective efficacy?

Answer 8

Leaders influence teams through modelling and enhancing group function by providing positive feedback, encouragement and creating problem solving scenarioes

Coach leadership have more impact than athlete leadership - Price and Weiss 2011

Question 9

How is collective efficacy measured?

Answer 9

Collective efficacy questionnaire for sports

• Ability
• Effort
• Persistence
• Preparation
• Unity

Question 10

What are the main consequences of collective efficacy?

Answer 10

Behaviour change - improved team performance, increased effort and persistence

Cognition - choose challenging goals, more likely to attribute success/failure to controllable factors

Affect - reduced pre-performance anxiety and more pride

Question 11

How can collective efficacy be enhanced?

Answer 11

Simulate game scenarios
Watch videos of other teams and self-modelling
Involve team in decision making
Maintain positive communication
Motivational speeches
Team building

Question 12

How does group size affect collective efficacy in student athletes according to Short 2015?

Answer 12

Higher collective efficacy in larger teams in all sub factors apart from unity and effort

Question 13

What did Hampson and Jowett 2014 find about group leadership and collective efficacy?

Answer 13

Coach leader behaviour explain 26% variance in collective efficacy

Coach-athlete relationship explain 9% variance in collective efficacy

Question 14

How can vicarious experiences impact collective efficacy?

Answer 14

Observe similar group succeeding

Also known as modelling

Question 15

What did Myers 2004 find about collective efficacy and past performance?

Answer 15

Reciprocal relationship

Question 16

Who devised the collective efficacy questionnaire for sports?

Answer 16

Short, Sullivan and Felts 2005

Question 17

What did Myers et al. 2004 find was a consequence of collective efficacy?

Answer 17

Improved offensive performance

Question 18

What did Stajkovic et al. 2009 find was a consequence of collective efficacy?

Answer 18

Significantly positive relationship as players expend more effort and persist in pursuit of their goals

Question 19

What did Greenless et al. 1999 find was a consequence of collective efficacy?

Answer 19

Low collective efficacy groups often reduce their goals after failure

Question 20

What is manipulated failure (Hodges and Carron 1992)

Answer 20

High collective efficacy team improve performance after failure

Low CE team reduce performance

Question 21

What did Munro, Chandler and Hall 2005 find improved collective efficacy?

Answer 21

Increases with guided imagery

Question 22

What did fransen et al 2014 find about leadership and collective efficacy?

Answer 22

Athlete leaders affect athlete perception of collective efficacy and coach perceptions

Question 23

Where is future research for collective efficacy required?

Answer 23

Self efficacy and collective efficacy relationship

Within team collective efficacy

Experience of coaches working with high and low efficacious teams

Interventions