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Test of a Model Incorporating Stress, Strain, and Disintegration in the Cohesion‐Performance Relation 1
Author(s) -
Griffith James
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1997.tb01610.x
Subject(s) - psychology , cohesion (chemistry) , group cohesiveness , social psychology , relation (database) , stress (linguistics) , variance (accounting) , computer science , data mining , chemistry , linguistics , philosophy , organic chemistry , accounting , business
This study proposes that stress, strain, and group disintegration are important concepts in studying cohesion's relation to performance. Data were obtained from 9,013 U.S. Army soldiers (in the ranks of Private through Staff Sergeant) in 112 companies representing units in both the U.S. and Europe. Results showed that stress, strain, and disintegration added significant, albeit small amounts of variance to perceived individual and group combat performance. The cohesion component, team task support as opposed to peer emotional support , showed the strongest relation to perceived individual and group combat performance, and showed the strongest buffering and mediating effects on the relation of stress to perceived combat performance.