Follow the leader: Identity leadership and moral behaviour in social situations among youth sport teammates

McLaren, Colin D.; Boardley, Ian D.; Benson, Alex J.; Martin, Luc J.; Fransen, Katrien; Herbison, Jordan D.; Slatcher, Richard B.; Carré, Justin M.; Côté, Jean; Bruner, Mark W.

doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2021.101940

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“…When children and teenagers participate in sports activities, they treat their teammates in a more prosocial way and are also recipients of other people’s prosocial behaviors. This finding is consistent with the concept of social identity theory, where individuals are driven to expand groups by treating group members more favorably [ 72 ]. Considering the influence of physical activity classes on children and adolescents’ prosocial behavior, teachers can better understand the characteristics of physical activity intervention through theory or teaching methods and help improve children and adolescents’ non-motor (cognitive, social, and emotional) skills.…”

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Influence of Sports Activities on Prosocial Behavior of Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Literature Review

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2022

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Prosocial behavior plays a key role in interpersonal relationships during the growth of children and adolescents. Good prosocial behavior is the foundation for the healthy development of children and adolescents. In recent years, the role played by some sports activities in children and adolescents’ prosocial behaviors has attracted much attention. However, the effects of physical activity on prosocial behavior have not been summarized. Objective: We aimed to clarify the role of sports activities in children and adolescents’ prosocial behaviors. Methods: We searched databases for 27 interventional studies on the influence of sports activities on children and adolescents’ prosocial behaviors published in peer-reviewed English journals. Subsequently, inductive, summary, analytical, and evaluation methods were used to systematically analyze and evaluate the literature. Results: Sports activities can improve children and adolescents’ prosocial behaviors. Different sports activities also influence children and adolescents’ prosocial behaviors differently. Moreover, sports activities can improve the prosocial behaviors of children and adolescents with special educational needs. Conclusion: This review demonstrates that sports activities improve the prosocial behavior of children and adolescents. At the same time, we find that children and adolescents with special educational needs should be allowed to participate in more sports activities.

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Influence of Sports Activities on Prosocial Behavior of Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Literature Review

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“…This may suggest that perceptions of team members' social identification hinge on what they are perceived to do (i.e., to develop and create structures to implement a sense of 'us' through active identity-developmental behaviours), not just which attributes they are seen to possess (i.e., being more or less prototypical of the group). This accords with the emphasis of more recent research into identity leadership, which has asserted that this is often as muchand sometimes more -about "doing" than "being" (e.g., McLaren et al, 2021). In particular, rather than leadership being only about identity prototypicality (Hogg, 2001), it also rests on the degree to which a leader is perceived to engage in identity advancement, entrepreneurship, and impresarioship Reicher et al, 2005;Steffens et al, 2014).…”

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

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McLaren

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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“…Interestingly, both the positive relationship between competitiveness and aggressive tendencies and the negative relationship between competitiveness and prosocial tendencies alleviate doubts raised in earlier research [65][66][67][68]. Bruner et al [37] observed in a study with similar samples that prosociality is a greater discriminating factor in predicting developmental outcomes in adolescents who participate in federated sports than in those who do not.…”

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Be Prosocial My Friend: The Social Disconnection Model of Perfectionism in Adolescents Immersed in Competitive Sport

Rodríguez-Franco

Carlo

Moral³

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The aim of the present study is to explore the relationships between cognitive–behavioral patterns of perfectionism in the context of competitive sport and both prosociality and aggressiveness in a sample of adolescents competing in federated sports. A cross-sectional and non-randomized study was designed using a selective methodology on a sample of adolescents (N = 234) competing in federated sports. Scales to assess aggressiveness, perfectionism, prosocial behavior, and competitiveness were administrated. The results show that as age increases, prosocial behaviors increase and aggressive behaviors and competitiveness decrease, while there was no one significant perfectionist tendency. Competitiveness showed a direct relationship with aggressive (positive) and prosocial behaviors (negative). Self-oriented perfectionistic behavior showed a direct and significant relationship with prosocial behaviors, but no significant relationship with aggressive responses. As P-SP and P-OD tendencies increased, significantly smaller links were shown with prosocial behaviors, but greater links were shown with aggressive behaviors. A path (mediation) model showed a positive and predictive relationship with aggressive behaviors and a negative relationship with prosocial altruistic behaviors. The negative influence of criticism from significant figures in their environment and unrealistic expectations about their performance are relevant to difficulties in self-regulating social relationships in adolescents. Hence, it is a challenge to promote prosocial resources (as a protective value for aggressive behaviors) in the face of the early angst of young athletes, who put their maturity to the test under conditions of high pressure and demands. The present study continues to reinforce the line drawn on perfectionism and prosocial development in young people in sports contexts where young people, measured early on according to their performance, can accentuate and deepen competitive tendencies that alter their adaptive and self-regulatory capacities, as well as their psychosocial projection.

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Follow the leader: Identity leadership and moral behaviour in social situations among youth sport teammates

Cited by 8 publications

References 40 publications

Influence of Sports Activities on Prosocial Behavior of Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Literature Review

Influence of Sports Activities on Prosocial Behavior of Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Literature Review

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

Be Prosocial My Friend: The Social Disconnection Model of Perfectionism in Adolescents Immersed in Competitive Sport

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