Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity Impact on Collective Efficacy – towards Team Cohesion: A China Youth Football Team Analysis

This study attempts to investigate the relationship between Collective Efficacy and Team Cohesion in the performance of youth football teams in France. Also, we are going to examine the influence of role ambiguity and role conflict on collective-efficacy. Furthermore, we will evaluate the significance of collective-efficacy impacting team cohesion and will provide a deeper insight into the study of French football teams. Moreover, the goal was also to describe and specify the profile of the questionnaire respondents that were included in the study and indicated why they were selected in the data collection process. Role ambiguity was found to be significant in affecting the players’ perception of efficacy but in a positive way. However, that contradicts to our theoretical assumption, stating that role ambiguity has a negative impact on collective efficacy. Individual perceptions of the players’ regarding their role do not seem to change the collective perception, taking into account the ambiguity factor. The sample of young football shows that there is a limited number of studies on this relationship among this age group. Therefore, it can be tested as a moderating factor of forming efficacy-cohesion relationship and more research should be provided in this topic, as it is new in contemporary studies.

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Role ambiguity, role conflict, team conflict, cohesion and collective efficacy in sport teams: A multilevel analysis

Psychology of Sport and Exercise ◽

10.1016/j.psychsport.2015.04.009 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 20 ◽

pp. 60-66 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

F.M. Leo ◽

I. González-Ponce ◽

P.A. Sánchez-Miguel ◽

A. Ivarsson ◽

T. García-Calvo

Keyword(s):

Multilevel Analysis ◽

Collective Efficacy ◽

Role Conflict ◽

Role Ambiguity ◽

Team Conflict ◽

Sport Teams

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Moderator effects of personality traits on the relation between role conflict, role ambiguity and burnout

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e538922013-174 ◽

2005 ◽

Author(s):

M. Mainville ◽

A. Boucher ◽

J. Bolduc-Teasdale ◽

A.-M. Gagnon ◽

M.-C. Laughrea ◽

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Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Role Conflict ◽

Role Ambiguity ◽

Moderator Effects

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Role Conflict and Role Ambiguity Scales--Revised

PsycTESTS Dataset ◽

10.1037/t02388-000 ◽

1983 ◽

Keyword(s):

Role Conflict ◽

Role Ambiguity

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Der Einfluss familialer Merkmale auf den Entwicklungsprozess vom Fussballtalent zum Spitzenspieler

Swiss Sports & Exercise Medicine ◽

10.34045/ssem/2015/7 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 63 (1) ◽

Keyword(s):

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Research Project ◽

Maximum Performance ◽

Adult Level ◽

Strong Affinity ◽

Youth Football ◽

Football Team ◽

The Family ◽

Exogenous Factors ◽

Level Performance

The process by which young talents develop to become top-class players once they reach the age of maximum performance is influenced by numerous factors. Among the exogenous factors, the family plays a central role. In the context of a research project carried out in cooperation with the Swiss Football Association SFV, 159 former members of the national youth football team were interviewed retrospectively, among other things concerning their family circumstances. The study is interested in understanding two issues: 1) It examines which family conditions – compared with average Swiss families – lead to success in adolescence (nomination for a national youth team). 2) Since success in adolescence by no means guarantees top-level performance at the age of maximum performance, the heterogeneity of the sample’s adult level of performance is used to compare players who later achieve greater success to the less successful players. It is found that these players come from families with many chil-dren and a strong affinity to sports. Those players who are particularly successful at the age of maximum performance also felt they received more support from their parents and siblings during childhood and adolescence than the players who went on to be less successful.

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Evaluation of the Effects of a Bullying at Work Intervention for Middle Managers

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph17207566 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (20) ◽

pp. 7566

Author(s):

Elena Baixauli ◽

Ángela Beleña ◽

Amelia Díaz

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Life ◽

Conflict Resolution ◽

Role Conflict ◽

Leadership Practices ◽

Role Ambiguity ◽

Middle Managers ◽

Second Phase ◽

Communication Effects ◽

Work Intervention

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effects of a workplace bullying intervention based on the training of middle managers regarding bullying awareness, the consequences of bullying, strategies in conflict resolution and mediation/negotiation abilities. Overall, 142 randomly selected middle managers participated in the study. First, participants completed an information record and two scales assessing bullying strategies, role conflict and role ambiguity. The last two scales were completed again in a second phase three months after the intervention had finished. The intervention produced a decrease in the following bullying strategies: effects on self-expression and communication, effects on personal reputation and effects on occupational situation and quality of life, with all of the mentioned bullying strategies being suffered by part of the sample. In addition, the conflict role decreased in the group which received the intervention. Moreover, the decrease in the effects of the bullying strategy effects on occupational situation and quality of life was especially important in managers with higher responsibilities within the workplace. Results are discussed in the framework that (1) leadership practices and, more specifically, conflict resolution skills are strongly responsible for bullying at work; and (2) the importance of intervening in the early stages of the bullying process as a key element in the correction, but also as a potential prevention element, of bullying in the workplace.

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