Emotional dynamics of soccer fans at winning and losing games |
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| Authors: | John H Kerr George V Wilson Isamu Nakamura Yoshiko Sudo |
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| Institution: | aFaculty of Health and Sport Sciences, Kokushikan University, 7-3-1 Nagayama, Tama-City, Tokyo 206 8515, Japan;bSchool of Psychology, University of Tasmania, Hobart 7001, Australia;cInstitute of Health and Sport Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305 8574, Japan |
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| Abstract: | The purpose of the present study was to investigate the emotional reactions of fans of winning and losing teams at two professional soccer games. The participants were 187 male and 146 female Japanese soccer fans who provided biographical information and responded to a slightly modified state version of the Tension and Effort Stress Inventory (TESI; Svebak, Ursin, Endresen, Hjelmen, & Apter, 1991) pre-, mid- and post-game. Data from winning and losing fans were analysed using 3 × 2 independent groups ANOVAs for each of the pleasant emotions, unpleasant emotions, and tension stress/effort stress ratings with Bonferroni adjustment to control Type 1 error rates. When winning and losing fans’ responses were compared, most differences were found post-game, where losing fans scored significantly higher than winning fans on boredom, anger, sullenness, humiliation and resentment, and lower on relaxation. Also, levels of pleasant and unpleasant emotions changed significantly for losing fans, but (except for boredom) not for winning fans. |
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| Keywords: | Pleasant emotions Unpleasant emotions Soccer fans Reversal theory |
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