Examining Sport Team Identification, Social Connections, and Social Well-being among High School Students

Abstract

Past research has found that sport team identification is positively correlated with social psychological health (Phua, 2012; Wann & Weaver, 2009) including work testing adolescent fans (Wann, Brasher, Thomas, & Scheuchner, in press). The current study was designed to extend previous investigations by examining the relationship between team identification and the establishment and maintenance of social connections. Data from 177 high school students confirmed expectations as identification with a high school football team was positively correlated with both social well-being and social connections. However, social connections were not found to mediate the relationship between identification and well-being, contrary to the team identification – social psychological health model (Wann, 2006b).

Predicción de los factores psicológicos de la ejecución deportiva según el Flow en practicantes de Crossfit

“…Por otro lado, la pérdida de conciencia propia, que refleja la falta de preocupaciones del practicante por su nivel de habilidad o la evaluación del entorno, correlacionó positivamente con el control de afrontamiento positivo y el control actitudinal, siendo a su vez, el mayor predictor para este último. Esta inhibición que se puede dar en contextos deportivos profesionales (Gallucci, 2013;Swann, et al, 2012) no se encuentra en ámbitos de deporte recreativo o amateur, donde como se señaló anteriormente, el deportista busca una satisfacción interna por la práctica deportiva, sin otro motivo adicional que el disfrute o el bienestar físico (Wann et al, 2015), y, por lo tanto, sin percibir ninguna situación aversiva por parte del entorno. Por último, la autoconfianza mostró correlaciones con el Feedback directo, lo cual demuestra la importancia del papel del entrenador en el caso del Crossfit, donde las correcciones y demostraciones brindan al participante más confianza en su práctica, aumentando así también el disfrute interno por la experiencia, lo cual ya fue estudiado en otros deportes como el Hockey femenino (Vives y Rabassa, 2020) y explicando por qué la experiencia autótelica fue su mayor predictor.…”

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“…Social identity theory is adapted to various research fields such as social psychology, human resource management, psychology, marketing and consumer behavior [19]. There are several studies conducted on the concept of team identification in the field of sports within the social identity context both in Turkey and other countries [20,21,22,23,24,25,26]. However, it is observed that research on team identification in the field of sports usually focuses on sports consumers and sports fans, especially in the Turkish literature [27,28,29,30].…”

Psychological processes connecting team identification and social well-being for middle-aged and older adults: moderated mediation of subjective and objective on-field performance

“…This ageing trend is notable for team sport entities, such as Major League Baseball (median age in 2016 = 57 years), the Women's National Basketball Association (55 years), college football (52 years), the National Football League (50 years), and National Hockey League (49 years; Lombardo & Broughton, 2017). Second, despite the ageing of sport fans, except for two studies (Inoue, Wann et al, 2020;Wann, Rogers et al, 2011), most research examined the relationship between team identification and social well-being by analysing data from student samples (e.g., Wann et al, 2003;Wann & Pierce, 2005;Wann, Waddill et al, 2015 or consumers with a range of age groups (e.g., Inoue et al, 2015;Lianopoulos et al, 2020). As there is evidence to suggest that middle-aged and older adults consume spectator sport differently from their younger peers (Lock et al, 2009;Van Driel & Gantz, 2019), it is essential to explicitly examine how team identification contributes to the social well-being of middle-aged and older adults, who constitute primary customer segments for many sport organisations (Lombardo & Broughton, 2017).…”