Murray State Theses and Dissertations

Abstract

In an attempt to add to the limit literature measuring team identification and sense of belonging, a sample of 147 current student athletes completed measures of team identification with his or her current sport team, sense of belonging, and levels of cohesion. Four mediation analyses were computed to investigate that sense of belonging mediated the relationship between team identification and a) social integration cohesiveness, b) social attraction cohesion, c) task integration cohesion, and d) task attraction cohesion. Despite what was expected, only one hypothesis was significant: sense of belonging mediated the relationship between team identification and social attraction cohesion. Implications of why this is true while the other mediation models were not significant are discussed, as well as limitations and next steps.

Year manuscript completed

2017

Year degree awarded

2017

Author's Keywords

athlete, sport, identification, belonging, cohesion

Degree Awarded

Master of Science

Department

Psychology

College/School

College of Humanities and Fine Arts

Thesis Advisor

Daniel L Wann

Committee Chair

Daniel L Wann

Committee Member

Jana Hackathorn

Committee Member

Sean Rife

Committee Member

Robert Lyons

Document Type

Thesis

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