Sport Psychology Studies

Sport Psychology Studies

The Impact of National Games on Team Cohesion and Its Mediating Role on the Inefficiency Indicators of collision and non-collision athletes

Document Type : Original research

Authors
Mojtaba Dehestani Ardakani 1
Morteza Pourazar 2
Beheshteh Eghbali 3
hossein samadi 4
nashmin azizidarabkhani 5
1 Department of Sport Sciences, Ardakan University, Ardakan, Iran.
2 Department of Physical Education, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
3 Department of Physical Education, Tehran University, Tehran, Iran
4 Department of Motor Behavior, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Yazd University,
5 Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Human Sciences, Tehran University of Science and Research
10.22089/spsyj.2023.14722.2393
Abstract
Objectives: Purpose of the present paper was to investigate the impact of national games on team cohesion and its mediating role on the inefficiency indicators of collision and non-collision athletes.
Methods&Materials: 75 people of contact athletes and 114 people of noncontact athletes were participated in the study. Brunel's mood questionnaire and Carron group environment (GEQ) scale for assessing group cohesion in two dimension of obligation cohesion and social cohesion were used. In order to analyze the data, one-sample t-test, one-way ANOVA test and Pearson's correlation coefficient were used at the P≤0.05 level.
Results: Results showed a significant difference in tension, game ability, and confusion subscale among collision and non-collision athletes. Also, antecedent and experience in national teams were the most important factors on team cohesion.
Conclusions: results suggests that besides recognizing efficient and inefficient behaviors, training use of negative moods could be applied by sport psychologist at exercise programs.
Keywords
Keywords: Contact Athlete
disturbance
Indices of inefficiency
Stress
tiredness
Subjects
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Sport Psychology Studies
Volume 12, Issue 45
Summer 2023
Pages 127-140

  • Receive Date 03 May 2023
  • Revise Date 22 October 2023
  • Accept Date 08 December 2023