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Attribution, Emotion, and Collective Efficacy in Sports Teams

ALLEN, Mark, JONES, Marc and Sheffield, David (2009) Attribution, Emotion, and Collective Efficacy in Sports Teams. Group Dynamics: Theory, Research, and Practice, 13 (3). pp. 205-217. ISSN 1089-2699

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This study investigated the effect of team-referent attributions on emotions and collective efficacy. A sample of 265 athletes, from 31 interdependent sport teams, completed measures of competition importance, the Sport Emotion Questionnaire (SEQ; Jones, Lane, Bray, Uphill, & Catlin, 2005), and a collective efficacy measure (CEM) immediately prior to competition. Immediately after competition, participants completed self-report measures of performance, the Causal Dimension Scale for Teams
(Greenlees, Lane, Thelwell, Holder, & Hobson, 2005), the SEQ, and the CEM. Findings indicated that following team victory attributions of team control were associated with higher levels of postcompetition happiness. Further, an interaction effect for team control and stability demonstrated that if team victory was perceived as stable over time, a team controllable attribution was associated with higher levels of postcompetition collective efficacy. For losing teams, an interaction effect for external control and stability indicated that only when team defeat was not perceived as under the control of others would an unstable attribution favor collective efficacy. This study
provides evidence that team-referent attributions contribute to emotions and collective efficacy beliefs in group achievement settings.

Item Type: Article
Faculty: Previous Faculty of Health Sciences > Psychology, Sport and Exercise
Depositing User: Marc JONES
Date Deposited: 15 Jan 2013 15:58
Last Modified: 23 Feb 2023 23:39
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URI: https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/297

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