How people raised and living in Ontario became fans of non-local National Hockey League teams

Hyatt, Craig; Andrijiw, Andre M.

doi:10.1504/ijsmm.2008.022375

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“…attitude formation for one Australian Football League fan (de Groot & Robinson, 2008); support of non-local teams (Hyatt & Andrijiw, 2008); fan nations (Foster & Hyatt, 2008); attitudinal change after charitable sport event participation (Filo, Funk, & O'Brien, 2008); the influence of web-based interaction on attachment levels with charitable sport events (Filo, Funk, & Hornby, 2009); and stage-based attitudinal and behavioural outcomes in recreational golf (Funk, Beaton, Pritchard, 2011). In the current inquiry, we focus on the processes which contribute to progression up the vertical continuum in the PCM and the outcomes associated with the awareness, attraction, attachment and allegiance stages of the model.…”

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“…The realisation that a team exists interacts with hedonic motives (e.g., vicarious achievement, escape) dispositional needs (e.g., psychological traits and states) and social situational factors (e.g., desire to belong) to activate attraction (Funk & James, 2006). Attraction occurs when an individual deems a team relevant and desirable to select it in favour of the existing alternatives in the market (Hyatt & Andrijiw, 2008). Thus, individuals will be attracted to support a team to benefit their social identity (Tajfel, 1982;Tajfel & Turner, 1979) and because there is a perceived congruence between individual and group values (Elsbach & Bhattacharya, 2001).…”

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Exploring the Development of Team Identification

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Taylor

Funk

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Journal of Sport Management

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Section: Building a Developmental Approach To Team Identificationmentioning

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Exploring the Development of Team Identification

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Taylor

Funk

et al. 2012

Journal of Sport Management

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“…Over the last decades, the concept of local team identification has been widely used to explain the positive influence of team connection in fans' psychological health. Some research has been also concentrated on fans who lack geographical proximity with their favorite sport team (e.g., displaced fans, fans who support away teams that compete in the same league as the local alternatives, and foreign supporters) in terms of the reasons for following such teams or of the antecedents to team identification (Adrijiw and Hyatt, 2009; Collins et al , 2016; Hyatt and Adrijiw, 2008; Kerr and Emery, 2016; Pu and James, 2017). Other research has focused on the benefits that displaced fans or fans who support a home team at a distance can receive because of their team identification or of their participation in a team's fan club (Scola et al , 2019; Wann et al , 2011a).…”

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Elevating self-esteem through sport team identification: a study about local and distant sport fans

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Theodorakis

Tsigilis

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PurposeThe concept of sport team identification has been widely used as a theoretical framework in explaining sport fan behavior. However, limited attention has been devoted to the consequences of distant (i.e., foreign) team identification. The purpose of the current research was to examine the way in which fans (local and distant) can increase their levels of collective and personal self-esteem due to their team identification.Design/methodology/approachData were accumulated from three Greek websites (N = 742). Among them, 623 subjects were grouped as local and 119 as distant football fans. A structural invariance analysis was followed.FindingsThe results revealed how team identification, enduring team-related social connections, and basking in reflected glory are interrelated to affect collective and finally personal self-esteem. Moreover, no differences were found between local and distant fans regarding the paths from eam identification to collective self-esteem and from collective self-esteem to personal self-esteem.Originality/valueThis is one of the first endeavors to examine the psychological consequences of distant team identification and to test the invariance across local and distant fans concerning the mechanisms that their personal self-esteem can be enhanced because their psychological connection to their favorite sport team.

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“…The concept of “satellite fans” defined above is specific to the fans who spectate sport contests through some form of mass media and it includes the population of “displaced fans.” In this project, we are more specifically interested in the “distant fans” who have not resided in physical proximity to their favorite team (see full definition below). In another study, Andrijiw and Hyatt (2009) investigated the behavioral differences between fans of a non-local team and their local counterparts (also see Hyatt and Andrijiw, 2008). They grounded their work through optimal distinctiveness theory (ODT) to explore the reasons why individuals with the opportunity to support a local team would choose instead to follow a non-local alternative.…”

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The distant fan segment

James

2017

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Purpose With the available technological tools, fans are able to access sport products regardless of geographic proximity. Through technology, fans can follow sports teams from other countries. In contrast to previous research focused on the local fan, in this paper we report on a study of a group of distant fans – Chinese National Basketball Association (NBA) fans – as the focal object. The study was guided by three questions: RQ1: what motives drive a distant fan’s involvement with their favorite NBA team? RQ2: are there differences in the motives associated with the different stages of psychological connection among distant fans? RQ3: are there differences in the amount of media consumption at the different stages of psychological connection? The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was distributed to consumers of a Chinese sports message board to assess the motives of distant fans (n=281) following teams in the NBA, and strength of psychological connection to the NBA based on the psychological continuum model (PCM). Findings There were significant differences in the motives for following a distant NBA team among the respondents at different stages of psychological connection. Significant differences were also found among Chinese NBA fans at the respective stages regarding media consumption. Originality/value This study contributes to the advancement of knowledge regarding sport fandom. It is one of the first studies to include an assessment of the sport consumption motives of distant fans, more specifically, motives influencing Chinese fans’ consumption of the NBA. Utilizing the PCM allows for the segmentation of a specific fan population and to ascertain whether there are differences in the motives and behaviors associated with different stages of an individual’s psychological connection with a team.

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How people raised and living in Ontario became fans of non-local National Hockey League teams

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Exploring the Development of Team Identification

Exploring the Development of Team Identification

Elevating self-esteem through sport team identification: a study about local and distant sport fans

The distant fan segment

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