The impact of match importance and gender on the team-serving attributional bias among interdependent sports team players

Group Dynamics

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 54-65

  Greenlees, Iain ^a   Stopforth, Marie ^a   Graydon, Jan ^a   Thelwell, Richard ^b   Filby, William ^c   El Hakim, Yassein ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTSMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WINCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Athletes; Causal Dimension Scale for Teams; Gender; Match importance; Team referent attributions; Team serving attributional bias

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATHLETE; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PERCEPTION; TEAM SPORT;

EID: 33947649068     PISSN: 10892699     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1089-2699.11.1.54     Document Type: Article

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