Thomas, William, Brown, Rupert, Easterbrook, Matthew, Vignoles, Vivian, Manzi, Claudia, Chiara, D'Angelo and Holt, Jeremy (2019) Team level identification predicts perceived and actual team performance: longitudinal multilevel analyses with sports teams. British Journal of Social Psychology, 58 (2). pp. 473-492. ISSN 0144-6665

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Abstract

Social identification and team performance literatures typically focus on the relationship between individual differences in identification and individual-level performance. By using a longitudinal multilevel approach, involving 369 members of 45 sports teams across England and Italy, we compared how team-level and individual-level variance in social identification together predicted team and individual performance outcomes. As hypothesised, team-level variance in identification significantly predicted subsequent levels of both perceived and actual team performance in cross-lagged analyses. Conversely, individual-level variance in identification did not significantly predict subsequent levels of perceived individual performance. These findings support recent calls for social identity to be considered a multilevel construct and highlight the influence of group-level social identification on group-level processes and outcomes, over and above its individual-level effects.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	Article published in Special Issue: Debate Section: 25 Years of System Justification Theory
Keywords:	Keywords: social identity, team performance, multilevel modelling, group processes, sports teams.
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion
Depositing User:	Lene Hyltoft
Date Deposited:	05 Oct 2018 10:13
Last Modified:	10 Jul 2019 16:15
URI:	http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/79151

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