Do member attributions for team outcomes represent a collective belief?

Shapcott, Kim M., Carron, Albert V., Greenlees, Iain and El Hakim, Yassein (2007) Do member attributions for team outcomes represent a collective belief? Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 9 (4), 487-492. (doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2007.05.004).

Abstract

Objectives: the main purpose of the study was to examine the degree to which member attributions for team outcomes reflect a shared belief. A secondary purpose was to determine if outcome (i.e., win/loss)served to moderate the degree to which shared beliefs were present in team member attributions.

Design: cross-sectional survey.

Method: participants (N ¼ 246) from 26 male and female intercollegiate basketball and volleyball teams completed the Causal Dimension Scale for Teams (CDS-T; [Greenlees, I. A., Lane, A., Thelwell, R. C.,Holder, T. P., & Hobson, G. (2005). Confirmatory factor analysis and construct validity of a team-referent attribution scale. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 76, 477–487]). The CDS-T is comprised of 16items that assess four dimensions: locus of causality, stability, team control, and external control.

Results: three statistical protocols were used to examine consensus: the index of agreement, the intraclass correlation coefficient, and eta-squared. Results showed index of agreement values were high(rwg ¼ 0.71–0.92). Also, intraclass correlations were significant (po0.05) in all instances. However, four of the eta-squared values failed to reach the established criterion of Z2 ¼ 0.20. Match outcome did not have an influence on the index of agreement values (Wilks lambda F(4,21) ¼ 1.50, p40.05, Z2p ¼ 0:22).

Conclusions: the results of the present study provide empirical support that team-referent attributions reflect a collective belief

This record has no associated files available for download.

Contributors

Author: Yassein El Hakim

Download statistics