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Peer Review Status: Refereed
Title: Leaders promote attendance in sport and exercise sessions by fostering social identity
Author(s): Stevens, Mark
Rees, Tim
Coffee, Pete
Haslam, S Alexander
Steffens, Niklas K
Polman, Remco
Keywords: Leadership
Social identity
Attendance
Exercise
Mediation
Issue Date: Sep-2018
Date Deposited: 9-May-2018
Citation: Stevens M, Rees T, Coffee P, Haslam SA, Steffens NK & Polman R (2018) Leaders promote attendance in sport and exercise sessions by fostering social identity. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 28 (9), pp. 2100-2108. https://doi.org/10.1111/sms.13217
Abstract: Sport and exercise participation exert a positive effect on numerous aspects of individuals’ health. Although sport and exercise leaders have generally been observed to play a key role in shaping group members’ behavior, our understanding of their impact on group members’ attendance in sport and exercise sessions is limited. To address this, and building on promising findings in other domains, we examined associations between perceptions of sport and exercise leaders’ engagement in social identity leadership, group identification, and attendance. A sample of 583 participants from sports teams (n=307) and exercise groups (n=276) completed questionnaires measuring identity leadership, group identification, and attendance. Analyses demonstrated that perceptions of leader engagement in social identity leadership were positively associated with members’ group identification, and that this in turn was positively associated with their attendance in either a sports group or an exercise group. Moreover, there was a significant indirect effect for perceptions of leader engagement in identity leadership on group members’ attendance through their greater identification with these groups. Findings highlight the importance of considering the impact sport and exercise leaders have on group members’ attendance and suggest that leaders who represent, advance, create, and embed a shared sense of identity (ie, a shared sense of ‘us’) among attendees can promote participation in sport and exercise.
DOI Link: 10.1111/sms.13217
Rights: This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. © 2018 The Authors. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science In Sports Published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd
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