Identity leadership and social identification within sport teams over a season: A social network analysis |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Nipissing University, Canada;2. KU Leuven, Belgium;3. University of Queensland, Australia;1. York St John’s University, York, United Kingdom;2. Department of Psychology, School of Social Sciences, Heriot-Watt University, United Kingdom;1. Department of Kinesiology, KU Leuven, Belgium;2. School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia;3. School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, The University of Queensland, Australia;1. Centre for Sport, Health and Exercise Research, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 2DF, UK;2. School of Sport, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland, FK9 4LA, UK;3. School of Sport, Exercise, and Health Sciences, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK;4. School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Brisbane, St. Lucia, QLD, 4072, Australia;1. Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium;2. School of Psychology, University of Queensland, Australia;1. Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Belgium;2. School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, Australia;3. School of Psychology, Sport and Physical Activity, AECC University College, Bournemouth, United Kingdom |
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| Abstract: | ObjectivesThis study explored the relationships between identity leadership and social identification in sport teams over the course of a season using social network analysis.MethodsParticipants from 23 competitive sport teams (N = 388, Mage = 20.7 years) indicated the extent to which each of their teammates displayed various forms of identity leadership (i.e., identity prototypicality, identity advancement, identity entrepreneurship, identity impresarioship) and the extent to which these same teammates were seen to identify with the team (assessed by ingroup ties, cognitive centrality, ingroup affect) early and later in a season. Quadratic assignment procedure correlations and multiple quadratic assignment procedure regressions examined the relationships between the different types of networks for each team across time.ResultsAthletes who perceived team members to show greater identity leadership perceived those same teammates to identify more strongly with the team both early (rsaverage > .46) and later (rsaverage > 0.48) in the season. Averaged across teams, identity entrepreneurship early in the season was most strongly associated with both perceived ingroup ties (βaverage = .24) and ingroup affect (βaverage = 0.13) later in the season, while identity impresarioship was most strongly associated with cognitive centrality (βaverage = .16). In the reversed direction, perceptions of ingroup ties early in the season were most strongly associated with all identity leadership dimensions later in the season (.28 < βaverage < 0.38).ConclusionsCollectively, these findings provide evidence of a mutually reinforcing bidirectional link such that teammates who are seen as actively contributing to promote a sense of ‘us’ among team members are also more likely to be seen as identifying strongly with the team. |
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| Keywords: | Social network analysis Athlete leadership Team identification Identity Identity leadership Quadratic assignment procedure Peer leadership |
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