Some Operational Measures of Cohesiveness and their Interrelations

Eisman, Bernice S.

doi:10.1177/001872675901200206

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“…Both the discriminate function analysis and the step-down test found that differences between residential organizations were largely dependent upon the interpersonal attraction and the value-of-membership variates. An explanation as to why these two variates were more discriminating is suggested from previous (4,16,21). These studies suggest that the more an individual is attracted to the members of his group, the more he is attracted to his group as a whole.…”

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Success and Residential Affiliation as Determinants of Team Cohesiveness

Peterson

Martens

1972

Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical E

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The influence of success and residential affiliation on the postseason cohesiveness of college intramural basketball teams was determined. In addition, whether or not an initial difference existed in the cohesiveness among basketball teams organized from three different residential organizations was investigated. Over 1,200 male college students, members of 144 basketball teams, completed a pre-and post-season questionnaire which assessed nine different aspects of cohesiveness. Three residential organizations and three levels of success were the independent variables. The preseason cohesiveness levels were analyzed by univariate and a multivariate one-way analysis of variance. Covarying out the preseason differences between the teams, the postseason data were analyzed by both a univariate and multivariate two factor (3 X 3) analysis of covariance. Results indicated that fraternity teams were initially more cohesive than teams from either men's residence halls or men's independent associations. Postseason cohesiveness did not significantly differ among the three groups when initial cohesiveness was covaried out. The results of the univariate and multivariate analyses of covariance revealed that success increased postseason cohesiveness, as compared with moderate success or lack of success. No significant interaction between residential affiliation and success was found.

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Section: Preseason Team Cohesivenessmentioning

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Success and Residential Affiliation as Determinants of Team Cohesiveness

Peterson

Martens

1972

Research Quarterly. American Association for Health, Physical E

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“…A researcher who is using factor analysis must decide how many common factors or principal components to retain. Making the "correct" decision obviates problems caused by over-extraction and under-extraction (e.g., Comrey, 1978Comrey, , 1988Coovert & McNelis, 1988;Fava & Velicer, 1992). In the group cohesion literature, most researchers have used Cattell's (1966) scree test and/or Kaiser's (1960) eigenvalue greater-than-one rule for deciding the number of dimensions to extract (e.g., Budman et al, 1989;Griffith, 1988;Johnson & Fortman, 1988;Vaitkus & Griffith, 1990).…”

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“…(For reviews, see Cartwright, 1968;Drescher et al, 1985;Shaw, 1976; *Ramuz-Nienhuis and Van Bergen's (1960) study was a direct replication of Eisman's (1959) work. Both studies focused on the intercorrelations among measures of cohesiveness.…”

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Using and misusing factor analysis to explore group cohesion

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Group cohesion is an important construct in understanding the behavior of different types of groups. However, controversy exists about how to conceptualize and measure cohesion, and a central issue is its dimensionality. Consequently, researchers have used factor analysis to examine the structure of the construct of cohesion and measures of it. Our goals in writing this article were to review critically how factor analysis has been used to understand group cohesion, make some recommendations for future factor analytic work, and point out some weaknesses and strengths in using factor analysis to explore cohesion.

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“…They viewed cohesion as "the total field of forces which act on members to remain in a group" (7: 164). Subsequent to this definition, researchers (6,9) have rendered criticism of such an approach due to a failure in the research methodology employed to adequately articulate between the nominal definition and the operational measurement of cohesion. Put more simply, researchers (1, 22) had attempted to measure the "total field of forces" by means of a single predictive index.…”

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Development of a Model for Predicting Team Performance

Bird

1977

Research Quarterly. American Alliance for Health, Physical Educ

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Some Operational Measures of Cohesiveness and their Interrelations

Cited by 39 publications

References 11 publications

Success and Residential Affiliation as Determinants of Team Cohesiveness

Success and Residential Affiliation as Determinants of Team Cohesiveness

Using and misusing factor analysis to explore group cohesion

Development of a Model for Predicting Team Performance

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