Although researchers have offered insights across a range of topics (eg, cohesion,
leadership, roles, etc.), a recent review suggested that the field of group dynamics in …

This critical review of the youth sport literature provides a guiding framework to inform future
studies and interventions aimed at understanding or manipulating mechanisms proposed to …

After having attended a friendly football match between Chelsea FC and Dynamo Moscow to
mark the end of World War II, the novelist George Orwell (1945) famously remarked that …

Objectives The purpose was to explore the relationship between athletes' self-compassion
and perceptions of their teammates' self-compassion (descriptive norm). A secondary …

With the assumption that the distinctive effect of provincial norms (versus general norms)
derives from a spatial distance between the actors and reference groups, the present …

ABSTRACT​​​ The current study examined the influence of social identity for individual
perceptions of self-worth, commitment, and effort in school-based youth athletes. Using a …

Using a social identity approach as a theoretical framework, the current research sought to
better understand the conditions under which female athletes may be particularly prone to …

Objectives The purpose of this research was two-fold:(1) to explore the relationship between
descriptive and injunctive norm perceptions on stair-use, and (2) to examine the impact of …

The influence of a 'group'is often posited as a key factor that influences behavior. This is
relevant in sports, where the presence of norms develops through interactions with important …

Conducted among parents of young ice hockey players, this field experiment tested if
making salient increasingly popular (ie, dynamic) social norms that promote …