The impact of athlete leaders on team members' team outcome confidence: A test of mediation by team identification and collective efficacy

Sport Psychologist

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 347-360

  Fransen, Katrien ^a   Vanbeselaere, Norbert ^a   de Cuyper, Bert ^a   Coffee, Pete ^b   Slater, Matthew J ^c   Boen, Filip ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

^c STAFFORDSHIRE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coaching; Leadership; Peer leaders; Social identity approach; Sport psychology; Winning confidence

Indexed keywords

EID: 84921516588     PISSN: 08884781     EISSN: 15432793     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1123/tsp.2013-0141     Document Type: Article

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