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Relationship Of Group Cohesion Of Young Soccer Players:the Structure And The Satisfaction Of Training And Competition

Posted on:2013-04-12Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z P NiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:1227330395954748Subject:Physical Education and Training
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China Youth soccer players are the subject of the investigation, structural Equation Model was used to verify Group Environment Questionnaire, also, Sport Achievement Motivation Scale, Sports Teams Interpersonal Communication Questionnaire, Coping with Stress Scale, Coaches’ Leadership Style Questionnaire, Training and competition Satisfaction Scale were used to measure reliability and validity of measurement tools, by using these tools the writer intended to draw conclusion of sports achievement motivation, interpersonal communication, stress response, the coaches’Leadership and training game satisfaction and group cohesion to inspect the following results:Firstly, by principal component analysis, the factors affecting the cohesion of the Chinese youth soccer players are the relationship between athletes and teams, external motivating factors, the team internal characteristics factor, coaches’quality factors and interpersonal factors. Male soccer players in groups of social networking’s attraction are significantly higher than women athletes’. The "15-16years "old group’s task cohesion and group contacts cohesion dimension is significantly higher than the "16-17years "old group. In terms of group interaction consistency dimension the " under15"and the "15-16" group was significantly higher than the "16-17"group, the "15-16" group was significantly higher than the "17-19". Training for "3-4years" group’task consistency was significantly higher than the "4years above" group.Secondly, Male athletes’ability of concentrating on solving the problem coping is significantly higher than female athletes’. The "15-16group’s interpersonal communication is significantly better than the "16-17" group. The "1-2years" of the training group’s and the "3-4years" group’s interpersonal communication is significantly better than the group of "4years above". Youth soccer players act differently when pursuing success, but less differently when avoiding failure. Gender difference of youth soccer players has a significant difference on the motivation to avoid failure, female are more willing to avoid failure than male. The democratic leadership in "under15" age group and "15-16group perceived was significantly higher than the "17-19years "group. Autocratic style leadership perception of "15-16" group was significantly higher than the " under15" age group, the "17-19" group was significantly higher than "15years "of age group and the "16-17years" group. Male athlete training and competition Satisfaction was significantly higher than female athletes.Thirdly, male and female athletes, the ability of focusing on problem-solving coping, on the emotional response and interpersonal communication can be a significant predictor of Group Cohesiveness. Male athletes’ perception of the individual attractions to the group-social and the integration-social can effectively predict the satisfaction of training and competition; female athletes’ perception of the individual attractions to the group-social are able to effectively predict training and competition satisfaction.For male athletes, the individual attractions to the group-social are mediating factors of interpersonal communication and the satisfaction of training and competition; the group integration-social is to focus on emotional response, interpersonal communication, the intermediary factors of the authoritarian style of leadership and democratic leadership. For female athletes, the individual attractions to the group-social are the focus on the mediating variables of emotional response and the authoritarian style of leadership satisfaction of training and competition. Both men and women athletes’focusing on problem-solving coping and achievement motivation has a direct role in forecasting the satisfaction of training and competition.
Keywords/Search Tags:Adolescent, Soccer, Group Cohesiveness, TrainingSatisfaction, Structure
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