Peers and teammates (year 2) Flashcards
what are peers:
Individuals of equal standing, whether this is a function of age, or rank, or class
Popularity: Experience of being liked or accepted by one’s peers
Group-level construct
Social acceptance, peer status
Degree to which one is liked or accepted/disliked or rejected
Friendship definition:
Friendship: Experience of a dyadic relationship that is mutual and close
Bilateral in nature
Peer relationships and perceived physical competence?
Meaningful associations exist between peer acceptance and self-perceptions
Direct and indirect effects of perceived physical competence and body image on perceived peer acceptance were identified
Peer relationships and experiences?
Meaningful peer relationships associated with positive sport experiences
Jealousy, poor work ethic, negative interactions – negative sport experiences
Peer relationship profiles and motivation:
Thrive and alpha peer relationship profile groups had significantly higher perceive sport competence than others.
Thrive and alphas had significantly higher enjoyment of sport than others.
Thrive had significantly less anxiety and self-presentational concerns than others.
Reject group had significantly higher competitive anxiety than other groups.
Thrive were more self-determined in motivation than isolate and reject and those in alpha reported more self-determined motivation than those in the isolate group.
More positive peer relationships more adaptive sport motivation.
Social and motivational predictors in youth sport
Perceived competence was the only motivational outcome variable to predict continuation
The current study did not support that self-determination for soccer predicts continuation,
contrary to several studies that have identified self-determined motivation as a predictor of various indices of sport continuation.
The main effect of positive friendship quality suggests that more positive friendship quality
provides an important source of support for soccer continuation.
When perceived mother relationship was low, probability of continuation was low except when both peer acceptance and friendship quality were high. the failure of father relationship quality to predict continuation.
Developing the team: Factors influencing team success:
Factors influencing team success:
Teamwork
Player-coach dynamics
Group dynamics
groups vs teams:
Group: “Two or more people who interact with, and exert mutual influence on, each other”
Team: (In addition to mutual interdependence and interaction)
Collective sense of identity
Distinctive roles
Structured modes of communication
Norms
Theories of group development:
Three approaches to group development:
Linear fashion
Stages
Cyclical pattern
Life-cycle
Pendulum-like manner
Shifts in interpersonal relations as group grows and develops
Linear perspective:
forming
storming
norming
performing
Cyclical Perspective:
Similar to linear perspective
Emphasis on terminal phase
As develop, psychologically prepares for own break-up
For short-term groups only
Little attention in the sport psych literature
Pendular perspective:
Does not progress in linear fashion
Orientation: High cohesion
Differentiation and conflict
Resolution and cohesion
Differentiation and conflict
Termination
Group cohesion?
“Total field of forces which act on members to remain in the group”
Attractiveness of the group
Means control
“A dynamic process that is reflected in the tendency for a group to stick together and remain united in pursuit of its instrumental objectives and/or for the satisfaction of member affective needs”
Antecedents affecting development of cohesion
Environmental factors – normative forces holding a group together
Personal factors – individual characteristics of group members
Leadership factors – leadership style and behaviours that professionals exhibit and the relationships they establish in groups
Team factors– group task characteristics, group productivity norms, desire for group success, group roles, group position, group stability
Using a social identity approach to enhance team membership?
Social identity approach: Shared connection between leader and group forms foundation of successful leadership
Leaders’ and group members’ social identities are the group level psychosocial process that underpin leadership
In groups we define ourselves as individuals and as group members
Social identity – individual’s knowledge they belong to a certain social group including emotional value and significance to them
Extent to which an individual feels they belong to a group
