Date of Award

10-9-2016

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science (MS)

Department

School of Kinesiology and Recreation

First Advisor

Anthony Amorose

Abstract

The effects of both peer-created and coach-created motivational climate on team cohesion was studied in a sample of 136 youth athletes. Task-involving aspects of both peer-and coach-created motivational climates were found to be positively related to team cohesion. Coach-created ego-involving climate was negatively related to team cohesion, most significantly attraction to group-task (ATG-T) cohesion. Peer-created ego-involving motivational climate was significantly, negatively related to group integration-task (GI-T) cohesion. Peer-created motivational climate accounted for variance above and beyond the influence of coach-created motivational climate on team cohesion. The results of this study suggest that a peer-created motivational climate influences team cohesion above and beyond a coach-created motivational climate.

Comments

Imported from ProQuest Ewaldz_ilstu_0092N_10858.pdf

DOI

http://doi.org/10.30707/ETD2016.Ewaldz.A

Page Count

43

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