A social identity approach to enhancing youth development and sport participation

Bruner, Mark W.; Sutcliffe, Jordan; Herbison, Jordan D.; Martin, Luc J.

doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-816336-8.00006-8

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“…Over the past decade, researchers have successfully applied Cameron's model of social identity to the context of sport (see Bruner et al, 2020, for a comprehensive overview). Here, mounting empirical evidence has also identified a host of team and individual outcomes associated with the different dimensions of social identification, ranging from moral behaviour toward teammates and opponents (e.g., Bruner et al, 2017 to indicators of positive youth development (e.g., self-worth, commitment; Martin et al, 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…For instance, one might wonder if the same patterns emerge for youth teams or those with a more recreational focus. In this regard it is notable that while social identity research in sport has explored the importance of social identification in youth sport contexts (e.g., Bruner et al, 2020), the same cannot be said for identity leadership. It is likely that this limitation is related to the absence of a measure validated for youth samples (Steffens et al, 2014).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Identity leadership and social identification within sport teams over a season: A social network analysis

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Mertens

et al. 2022

Psychology of Sport and Exercise

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Objectives: This study explored the relationships between identity leadership and social identification in sport teams over the course of a season using social network analysis.Methods: Participants 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.Results: Athletes 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 > .48) in the season. Averaged across teams, identity entrepreneurship early in the season was most strongly associated with both perceived ingroup ties (average = .24) and ingroup affect (average = .13) later in the season, while identity impresarioship was most strongly associated with cognitive centrality (average = .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 < average < .38). Conclusions:Collectively, 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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Section: Network Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Limitations and Directions For Future Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%