Nonstarter Role Acceptance and Team Cohesion
Nonstarter Role Acceptance and Team Cohesion
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2014
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Morrow, Danielle N.
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The study's purpose is to examine the roles of nonstarters and determine if nonstarter role acceptance affects team cohesion. It is hypothesized that nonstarters will gravitate towards informal roles, teams that have higher levels of nonstarter role acceptance will have higher levels of perceived team cohesion, starters will have significantly higher levels of role acceptance than nonstarters, and lastly there will be significant differences in the levels of cohesion between starters and nonstarter. Past research has focused on how formal roles can influence teams (Benson, Eys, Surya, Dawson, and Schneider, 2013) and the relationship between team cohesion and team performance (Filho, Dobersek, Gershgoren, Becker, and Tenenbaum, 2014). There has been little research done on the nonstarter population, their roles on the team, and the impact this may have on a team. The participants for the present study consist of 255 college level athletes, both male and female, from team sports across the United States. The initial step in the study is for the participants to read an informational sheet about the types of roles on team, informal and formal. Next the athletes completed a questionnaire designed for the study to determine his or her level of role acceptance, and then complete the Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ, Widmeyer, Brawley, & Carron, 1985). Research question one is analyzed using a frequency to see how many nonstarters take on formal versus informal roles. In accordance with predictions, nonstarters chose more informal roles compared to starters. In contrast to prediction, nonstarters did not choose more informal roles compared to formal roles. A correlation was run to determine if there is a relationship between nonstarter role acceptance and team cohesion. Moderate correlations were found between role acceptance and ATG-T and GI-T. A t-test was run to compare the groups of non-starters and starters on their level of role acceptance, and a significant difference in role acceptance between starters and nonstarters was detected. A MANOVA was run to determine if there was a difference between starters and nonstarter on their levels of cohesion. It was revealed that there was one significant difference between starters and nonstarters on the dimension ATG-T. Overall, this research aims to begin to understand the relationship between nonstarter role acceptance, team dynamics, and performance.
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roles, formal roles, informal roles, nonstarters, team cohesion