Development of a cohesion inventory for children's sport teams.

Abstract

The general purpose of this dissertation was to develop an inventory designed to measure cohesion in children's (ages 9-12) sport teams. To this end, three studies were conducted. In Study 1, children became active agents in the process of test construction.

Validation of the Child Sport Cohesion Questionnaire

“…The remaining two items are negatively worded spurious items used to detect participant response acquiescence. This newly created questionnaire demonstrated strong model fit with good inter-factor correlations and internal consistency values (Martin et al, 2012). Although these initial results are promising, establishing construct validity is an ongoing process.…”

“…More recently, Eys, Loughead, Bray, and Carron (2009) developed the Youth Sport Environment Questionnaire (YSEQ) for adolescent sport populations (13-17 years). Finally, and of most relevance to the present study, Martin, Carron, Eys, and Loughead (2012) developed the Child Sport Cohesion Questionnaire (CSCQ)-an inventory used to assess cohesion in children's (9-12 years) sport teams.…”

“…This type of validity can be assessed both externally, through relationships with theoretically unrelated constructs such as cohesion and IQ, and internally, through relationships between subscales-for example, between task and social cohesion (e.g., Cumming, Smith, Smoll, Standage, & Grossbard, 2008). Perceptions of cohesion in children have been found to have task and social orientations (Martin, Carron, Eys, & Loughead, 2011;Martin et al, 2012). Task cohesion is concerned with team goals and objectives, while social cohesion is concerned with friendships and affiliation .…”

Relación de los estilos de liderazgo, cohesión grupal, potencia de equipo y rendimiento en jugadores de fútbol no profesionales

“…Sin embargo, pese a que numerosos estudios vienen focalizando sobre la ansiedad, el estrés, la motivación, el ajuste emocional, la autorregulación o la cohesión (Adie, Duda, & Ntoumais, 2012;Boardley, & Kavussanu, 2010) como algunos de los factores sobre los que intervenir, un modelo que ayude a comprender no solo la relación entre estas variables (Leo, Sánchez-Miguel, Sánchez-Oliva, Amado, & García-Calvo, 2013;Martin, Carron, Eys, & Loughead, 2012;Sánchez-Oliva, Leo, Sánchez-Miguel, Amado, & García-Calvo, 2010), sino también su potencial contribución hacia la optimización de los resultados en los deportistas (Myers, Payment, & Feltz, 2004), se hace necesario. La estrecha relación conceptual que en ocasiones mantienen estas variables hace aún más complejos los intentos de acotar un modelo válido subyacente a la estructura de los grupos eficaces.…”

Examination of Youth Athletes' Team Cohesion and Collective Efficacy Beliefs

“…[16][17][18][19][20][21] Validated team cohesion instruments that differentiate between adults, adolescents and children already exist in the published literature, yet not many studies have so far considered the relationship between team cohesion and collective efficacy in younger populations. 9,12,22 Hence, team cohesion and collective efficacy relationship in different age stages needs exploration within the context of the relevant age group. In this study, we examined the effects of gender and team tenure on team cohesion, and the relation of collective efficacy to cohesion in youth sport.…”