Team-Serving Attributional Bias: How Changes in Ego-Involvement Affect Attributions in Team Sports over the course of a season.
| dc.contributor.author | Holt, Tyson David | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-04-09T03:53:20Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-04-09T03:53:20Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Attributions are the reasons that people assign to the outcome of events. Humans do this naturally in a way to build an understanding of their actions and to provide information for future actions. When these attributions have been measured in sport, what often emerges is an attributional bias, where athletes often accept responsibility for success but place blame for failure. Team-serving attributional bias (TSAB) is of particular interest because of its impact on motivation in team sports. Unfortunately, previous studies have been unable to provide full support for TSAB or a theoretical underpinning for this phenomenon. Taking from Tajfel's and Turner's Social Identity Theory (1986), this researcher predicted that TSABs would be used by athletes but moderated by the individual athlete's ever-changing ego-involvement in the team. A modified version of the Causal Dimension Scale-Teams, a revised version of the McAuley et al.'s CDSII (1992) was given four times over the course of a season to 224 college-level female soccer players. Using Pearson correlations the researcher found partial support for TSABs and the role of ego-involvement and support for the hypothesis that bias increases over time using a mixed model 4x2 factorial analysis of variance (ANOVA). Stability was found to be the most consistent measure of bias while locus of causality and internal controllability were highly correlated with ego-involvement at each round. Stability and its correlation to bias would suggest that the athletes felt that the causes of success were more permanent than the causes of failure. On the other hand, locus of causality and internal controllability seem to be reflective of team dynamics. The relationship between ego-involvement and the dimensions team-serving attributional Team Attributions III bias may offer greater understanding to how and why attributions affect motivation in team sport. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11803/3140 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher.institution | John F. Kennedy University (JFKU) | |
| dc.title | Team-Serving Attributional Bias: How Changes in Ego-Involvement Affect Attributions in Team Sports over the course of a season. | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Sport Psychology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | John F. Kennedy University (JFKU) | |
| thesis.degree.level | Masters | |
| thesis.degree.name | Master of Arts in Sport Psychology |