Download - Team Cohesion in Water Polo
TEAM COHESIONIN WATER POLO
Ong Chong Jie
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CONTENT
Introduction
Literature Review
Barriers to team cohesion
GEQ
Methodology
Results
Discussion
Applied Implications
Summary
Acknowledgment
References
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INTRODUCTION
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Water Polo
-water sport
-swimming, throwing, passing
(wikipedia, 2009)
Team Cohesion
-stick together
-united to pursuit goal & objectives
(Carron, 1982)
CONT’
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Social Cohesion
-like and enjoy spending time
together
Task Cohesion
-stick together
-specific & identifiable goal
Carron, 1982
LITERATURE REVIEW
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YEAR AUTHOR PUBLICATION/ JOURNAL MAIN FINDINGS
2008 Mohammad Narimani
and Saeid Sadeghieh
Ahari
Relationship between
team cohesion, role
ambiguity, & athletic
performace
Positive correlation between
team cohesion and athletic
performance
2002 Albert V. Carron, Steven
R. Bray, Mark A. Eys.
Team cohesion and
team success in sport
very strong relationship
between cohesion and
success in sport teams
1997 Sheilds, D The Effects of Verbal
Aggressiveness and
Argumentativeness
Communication Traits
positive correlation between
argumentativeness
communication traits and
small group cohesion.
1990 Widmeyer, Brawley,
Carron
The effects of group
size in sport
enjoyment and cohesion
decreased as size increased
1982 Carron, A, V Cohesiveness in
sports group
certain factors that lead to
team cohesion
BARRIERS IN TEAM COHESION
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Clash of personalities
Conflict of task/social roles among members
Breakdown in communication
One/more members struggling for power
Disagreement on goals/objective
Carron (Group Cohesion,
2008)
GROUP ENVIRONMENT QUESTIONNAIRES
(GEQ)
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METHODOLOGY
Objective: to study the team cohesion in
water polo
Participants: 11 males
Age: 19-21
Training experience: 1 to 2 years
Level of participation: College
GEQ given before training starts
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RESULTS
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Group/ Name
Attraction to group-task
Attraction to group-social
Group integration-task
Group integration-social
Ath1 19 10 21 28
Ath2 15 25 19 22
Ath3 16 23 23 18
Ath4 12 12 27 24
Ath5 13 17 31 17
Ath6 17 36 31 32
Ath7 12 13 25 24
Ath8 13 15 28 14
Ath9 16 7 21 11
Ath10 16 9 29 23
Ath11 17 19 21 19
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5
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35
40
Ath1 Ath2 Ath3 Ath4 Ath5 Ath6 Ath7 Ath8 Ath9 Ath10 Ath11
Sco
re
Athlete
GEQ Results
Attraction to group-task
Attraction to group-social
Group integration-task
Group integration-social
19
15 16
12 13
17
12 13
16 16 17
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
Ath1 Ath2 Ath3 Ath4 Ath5 Ath6 Ath7 Ath8 Ath9 Ath10 Ath11
Sco
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Athlete
Attraction to group-task
10
2523
12
17
36
1315
79
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0
5
10
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40
45
Ath1 Ath2 Ath3 Ath4 Ath5 Ath6 Ath7 Ath8 Ath9 Ath10 Ath11
Sco
re
Athlete
Attraction to group-social
11
28
22
18
24
17
32
24
1411
23
19
0
5
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15
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Ath1 Ath2 Ath3 Ath4 Ath5 Ath6 Ath7 Ath8 Ath9 Ath10 Ath11
Sco
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Athlete
Group integration-social
2119
23
27
31 31
2528
21
29
21
0
5
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Ath1 Ath2 Ath3 Ath4 Ath5 Ath6 Ath7 Ath8 Ath9 Ath10 Ath11
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Group integration-task
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DISCUSSION
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•Group integration social and task is better
•Low due to level of training/ experience
•Misunderstand the questions
APPLIED IMPLICATIONS
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Coach
Carron (Group Cohesion, 2008)
APPLIED IMPLICATIONS CONT’
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Member
Carron (Group Cohesion, 2008)
SUMMARY
Team cohesion increases performance
Takes time to build cohesion
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ACKNOWLEDGMENT
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Thank you to SPC staffs, SPC
colleagues, athletes which had helped
me and ISN library for providing me
informations.
REFERENCES
Albert V. Carron, Steven R. Bray, Mark A. Eys. (2002). Team cohesion and team
success in sport, Journal of Sports Sciences, Feb 2002 v20 i2 p119(8)
Carron, A. V. (1982). Cohesiveness in sport groups: Interpretations and
considerations. Journal of Sport Psychology, 4, 123-138
Carron, A., Brawley, L., Widmeyer, N. (2002). Group Environment Test
Questionnaire Manual. Retrieved 9/6/2009, from www.morris.umn.edu
Group Cohesion (2008), Retrieved 5/6/09 from,
http://www.lcsc.edu/mcollins/groupcohesion.htm
Mohammad Narimani and Saeid Sadeghieh Ahari, (2008). Relationship between
team cohesion, role ambiguity, & athletic performance. Journal of Biological
Sciences 3(1):45-51
Sheilds, D, (1997). The Effects of Verbal Aggressiveness and Argumentativeness
Communication Traits, Retrieved 17/6/2009, from
http://people.wcsu.edu/mccarneyh/acad/scales.html
Widmeyer, Brawley, Carron, (1990), The effects of group size in sport, Journal
of Sport & Exercise Psychology, 12(2), 177-190.
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THANK YOU!!
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