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- Title
A Comparison of Two Conative Characteristics of Top Basketball and Recreational Table Tennis Players.
- Authors
Sindik, Joško; Missoni, Saša
- Abstract
The purpose of this study is to adapt imported instruments for measuring multidimensional perfectionism in sport situations and perceived group cohesion, in terms of construct validity and reliability, as well as from the aspect of interpretability, addressed on Croatian samples of athletes. Group Environment Questionnaire (GEQ) and Sport Multi-dimensional Perfectionism Scale (MSSP) are applied. The sample of 223 male Croatian athletes comprises of N1=107 top basketball players from nine teams inA-1 Croatian Basketball League andN2= 116 recreational table tennis players who play in Table Tennis Organization of Clubs and Actives in Zagreb. Principal Components Analyses at both instruments showed two-component structures: combined social-task cohesion and friendship were latent dimensions of perceived group cohesion, while the internalized standards and externalized standards revealed two aspects of multidimen-sional perfectionism in sport situations. In perceived group cohesion, basketball players achieved higher average results than table tennis players in the friendship, while the table tennis players showed higher combined social and task orien-tation than basketball players. In multidimensional sport perfectionism, basketball players have higher average result than table tennis players in the dimension of internalized perfectionism, but in externalized perfectionism there is no statistical significant difference. Younger players showed higher average results than older players in the dimension of friendship, while older players showed higher combined social and task orientation than younger players. Younger players have higher average scores in internalized perfectionism. The main importance of the research is adjustment of multi-dimensional perfectionism in sport situations and perceived group cohesion to Croatian athletes, providing additional possibility of cross-cultural adjustment of both concepts, psychometrically and theoretically.
- Subjects
SPORTS teams -- Social aspects; BASKETBALL players; TABLE tennis players; GROUP identity; PERFECTIONISM (Personality trait); FRIENDSHIP; CROATS; GROUP Environment Questionnaire; PSYCHOLOGY
- Publication
Collegium Antropologicum, 2013, Vol 37, Issue Supp 2, p187
- ISSN
0350-6134
- Publication type
Article