Open AccessPerceived Sources of Team Confidence in Soccer and Basketball
Author(s) -
Katrien Fransen,
Norbert Vanbeselaere,
Bert De Cuyper,
Gert Vande Broek,
Filip Boen
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
medicine and science in sports and exercise
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.703
H-Index - 224
eISSN - 1530-0315
pISSN - 0195-9131
DOI - 10.1249/mss.0000000000000561
Subject(s) - basketball , psychology , team sport , coaching , self confidence , confidence interval , collective efficacy , athletes , outcome (game theory) , social psychology , applied psychology , medicine , physical therapy , mathematics , archaeology , mathematical economics , psychotherapist , history
Although it is generally accepted that team confidence is beneficial for optimal team functioning and performance, little is known about the predictors of team confidence. The present study was aimed to shed light on the precursors of both high and low team confidence in two different sports. A distinction is made between sources of process-oriented team confidence (i.e., collective efficacy) and sources of outcome-oriented team confidence (i.e., team outcome confidence), which have often been confounded in previous research.