Using a Multilevel Approach to Examine the Relationship between Task Cohesion and Team Task Satisfaction in Elite Ice Hockey Players  

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Spink, Kevin S. ; Nickel, Darren ; Wilson, Kathleen ; Odnokon, Pat

Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: Small Group Research vol. 36 no. 5 (2009), page 539-554.
Topik: multilevel; Group Environment Questionnaire; team satisfaction; group level
Fulltext: 539.pdf (111.4KB)

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Of numerous studies conducted over the years examining cohesion in the sport setting, very fewhave acknowledged that participants are nested within teams, which has resulted in analysis of data at the individual level. Given that members of sport teams are interdependent, valuable information might be lost if constructs such as cohesion are examined only at an individual level. The purpose of this study was to illustrate how multilevel modeling could be used to handle this interdependence among observations within teams when examining the relationship between task cohesion and team satisfaction. Male ice hockey players (N=194) on 10 teams completed the cohesion and satisfaction measures near the end of the regular season. Using multilevel analysis, task cohesion predicted variance in team task satisfaction at the individual (33%) and group (55%) levels. Results highlight the value of multilevel models as well as extend research finding a relationship between cohesion and individual satisfaction to team satisfaction.

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