TITLE:
Perceptions of Coach Social Identity and Team Confidence, Motivation and Self-Esteem
AUTHORS:
Tony Cassidy, Paul Cummins, Gavin Breslin, Maurice Stringer
KEYWORDS:
Social Identity, Sport Coaching, Sport Confidence, Sport Motivation
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.5 No.10,
August
18,
2014
ABSTRACT: The social identity theory of leadership has potential application to sport
coaching research but lacks a usable measure. We administered a pool of 51 items
to 271 sport science
students aiming to produce measures of coach prototypicality and team identity.
Principal component analysis (PCA) produced a 10-item Coach Social Identity Scale (CSIS), and a 15-item Team
Social Identity Scale (TSIS). The study produced initial evidence of
reliability and validity for both the CSIS and the TSIS, providing a
potentially useful set of measures with which to explore the role of social identity
in coaching.