The Study On Group Cohesion In Chinese Excellent Adolescent Basketball Teams

The study investigated parts of excellent adolescent basketball teams in China.Structural Equation Model(SEM) was used to modify and design Coach Leadership Style Scale,Team Interpersonal Communication Questionnaire,and Athlete Achievement Motivation Scale on the basis of literature and interview.After the research tool were explored by the reliability and validity,which was to used to examine the relationship among coach leadership style,athlete achievement motivation,team interpersonal communication,satisfaction performance and cohesion.In the end,the mediational effects of team shared mental model and team efficacy on the group cohesion-performance relationship was explored. The main conclusions can be summarized as follows:Firstly,the revised Coach Leadership Style Scale is a 2-dimension structure including 10 items and achievement motivation scale is a 2-dimension structure including 23 items.The reliability and validity of them is good enough for diagnosing and evaluating group cohesion and coach leadership style in domestic sports teams.The designed Team Interpersonal Communication Questionnaire is a one-dimension structure including 7 items and team shared mental models questionnaire includes 4 scenarios,each one has 10 items.The reliability and validity of them are good enough to be used to diagnose and evaluate team interpersonal communication and basketball sense of tactics in domestic sports teams.Secondly,wether male or female players,democratic leadership style, achievement motivation and interpersonal communication are the main predictors of cohesion.Male athletes’ perceived the individual attractions to the group-task mediate the relationship between team interpersonal communication and team performance satisfaction;mediate the relationship between team interpersonal communication and team interpersonal communication satisfaction.Female athletes’ perceived the group integration-task mediates the relationship between athletes’ achievement motivation and team interpersonal communication satisfaction.For all players,the group integration-task mediates the relationship between team interpersonal communication and team performance.Thirdly,athletes’ perceived task-cohesion is the main predictor of team shared mental models and team efficacy;the latter two are the main predictor of team performance;team shared mental models and team efficacies mediate the relationship between cohesion and team performance.