Exploring the Relationship between Cohesion and Collective Efficacy in Tunisian Sports Teams: Validation of the Tunisian Version of the Collective Efficacy Questionnaire for Collective Sports

Year 2017, Volume 5 - Issue 1, 46 - 59, 30.03.2017

Wissal Boughattas Noureddine Krıdıs

Abstract

This project seeks to examine the relationship between cohesion and collective efficacy in
Tunisian sport’s team. A total of 463 athletes (313 males, M age= 17,3, SD = 2.09 and 150
females, M age = 19.15, SD = 3.32) were recruited from 18 Tunisian amateur sport team.
This sample complete the Tunisian version of GAG (group environment questionnaire, Heuzé
et Fontayne, 2002) and a collective efficacy measure validate for this study which is the
second objective of this research: the validity of a Tunisian (classical Arabic) translation of
the Collective Efficacy Questionnaire in Sports (CEQS). Confirmatory factor, internal
consistency and correlation analysis among subscales were performed. The statistical analyses
undertaken provide the psychometric character of the Tunisian CEQS (α = 0.92).This study
also revealed a positive and significantly relationship between the dimensions of cohesion and
collective efficacy. However, subsequent multiple regression analyses indicated that
collective efficacy is more related to task cohesion than social cohesion. More than, Tunisian
Players who perceived a higher level of task cohesion also tended to report higher collective
efficacy judgments

Keywords

Collective efficacy, measurement, cohesion, sports team

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