Research On The Mental Model Of Shanghai University Students' Marathon Running Team Cohesion

In recent years,city marathons with ‘Running China' as the ‘Chinese Event IP'has swept across the whole country.College marathons have also developed rapidly,and running teams and clubs related to road running have blossomed in various domestic universities,showing a vigorous development trend.However,problems have emerged in the development of the cohesion of college students' running teams,such as team members' insufficient and ambiguous knowledge of the internal understanding as a team,sense of belonging,and happiness of the group,which affect negatively the development of healthy minds for the runners.This study proposes several intervention measures and training methods of the mental model of college students' running group cohesion,which provides an entry point and evaluation system for the cultivation of it.This research,based on the comprehensive theory of sports team cohesion under the framework of group dynamics,combined with the mental model theory,using literature data,questionnaire survey,interview,mathematical statistics,logical analysis and other research methods,is an empirical research with the subjects of 412 undergraduate students in the Shanghai college running groups.With statistical analysis conducted on the questionnaire by SPSS22.0 data analysis software,such as factor analysis and regression analysis,this research provides empirical theoretical support for exploring the mental model of college students' running team cohesion.The conclusion is as follows:(1)The multiple dimensions of the mental model of college running team cohesion include society dimension,task goal dimension,running team belonging dimension,personal well-being dimension,running team efficacy dimension and captain leadership dimension.(2)In the empirical research of the mental model of running team cohesion,it is found that the dimensions of society and task goal change prominently.We thus draw the conclusion that the most important dimensions for the college running teams are the dimension of society and sense of belonging.(3)Related factors,such as demographic variables,achievements,match scale(projects),foreign objects(batons,ribbons,etc.),state of mind before and during the match,can also cause changes in the mental model of college running team cohesion.