The Relationship between Intra-Group Conflicts and Performance in Collective Sports: Mediator Effect of Collective Efficacy
Intra-group conflict and perceived performance
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- This work was supported by group grants (GR18102) from the Junta de Extremadura (Ministry of Employment and Infrastructures) with the contribution of the European Union through the Regional Development Funds. In addition, this work is supported by a pre-doctoral contract of the Training Program for University Teachers of the Government of Spain (FPU17 / 03489).
Abstract
The present study aimed to analyze the relationship between intra-group conflict and team perceived performance at the end of the season, and to examine the mediating effect of collective efficacy on this relationship. 420 semi-professional and amateur players (M = 22,40; SD = 4,71) of basketball, handball, soccer and volleyball participated. Structural equation modeling was used to test the predictive effects between variables and the bootstrap method with bias correction to find the indirect effects of the models. The results showed that intra-group conflict (task and social) was negatively related to team performance and collective efficacy showed significant results acting as a mediator between the relationship of intra-group conflict (task and social) and team perceived performance. It is important to highlight that intra-group conflict seems to worsen the collective functioning and that collective efficacy can soften this negative relationship, achieving an increase in team performance at the end of the season. Therefore, the findings could be very useful for professionals who work daily with sports teams, reducing the number of intra-group conflicts and increasing the confidence in their players about the capabilities of the team to successfully develop a certain task.
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