SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS AND CONFORMITY OF BASKETBALL PLAYERS

Igor Vučković ,
Igor Vučković

Faculty of physical education and sport, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Aleksandar Gadžić ,
Aleksandar Gadžić

Football Academy, Belgrade, Serbia

Željko Sekulić ,
Željko Sekulić

Faculty of physical education and sport, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Duško Lepir
Duško Lepir

Faculty of physical education and sport, University of Banja Luka, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Published: 01.06.2010.

Vol 2, No 1 (2010), 2010, 2 (1);

pp. 77-84;

https://doi.org/10.31382/EQOL201001076V

Abstract

The subject of present research was relations between basketball playersí social characteristics and their conformity toward coach and club management. Study aim was to explore the relationship between basketball playersí social characteristics and their conformity toward coach and club management. Sample of examinees was consisted of 113 adult basketball players. Research instruments were modified social questionnaire SSMAXIP (Hoöek, 2004), and modified conformity scale (The Conformity Scale, Mehrabian, & Stefl, 1995). Internal reliability of the conformity scale was ·=.74. Spearmanís coefficient of rank correlation was used in order to examine significance of relations between social characteristics and conformity of basketball players. This analysis has shown that significant relationships between the majority of social characteristics and conformity toward coach and club management of basketball players do not exist, indicating that some outer factors contribute to playersí high conformity.

Keywords

References

1.
Atkinson M. Pretty in Ink: Conformity, resistance, and negotiation in women’s tattooing. Vol. 47, Sex Roles. p. 5–6.
2.
Carron A. Social psychology of sport.
3.
Carron A, Bray S, Eys M. Team cohesion and team success in sport. Vol. 20, Journal of Sports Sciences. p. 119–26.
4.
Carron A, Beauchamp M, Bray S, Eys M. Role ambiguity, role efficacy and role performance: Multidimensional and mediational relationships within interdependent sport teams. Vol. 6, Group Dynamics: Theory, Res. Practice. p. 229–42.
5.
Carron A, Eys M, Bray S, Beauchamp MR. Role ambiguity and athlete satisfaction. Vol. 21, Journal of Sports Sciences. p. 391–401.
6.
Carron A, Eys M, Beauchamp M, Bray S. Athletes’ perceptions of the sources of role ambiguity. Vol. 36, Small Group Research. p. 383–403.
7.
Gould D, Guinan D, Greenleaf C, Medbery R, Peterson K. Factors affecting Olympic performance: Perceptions of athletes and coaches from more and less successful teams. Vol. 13, The Sport Psychologist. p. 371–94.
8.
Hosek A. Elementi sociologije sporta II. In: Elements of Sport Sociology II] Leposavié: Fakultet fizicke kulture.
9.
Humara M. Personnel selection in athletic programs.
10.
Joksimović S, Maksić S. Vrednosne orientacije adolescenata: usmerenost prema sopstvenoj dobrobiti i dobrobiti drugih. [Validity orientations of adolescents: tendency to own benefit and benefit of others. Vol. 38, Zbornik Instituta za pedagoska istrazivanja. p. 415–29.
11.
Jowett S, Cockerill IM. Olympic medallists’ perspective of the athlete-coach relationship. Vol. 4, Psychology of Sport and Exercise. p. 313–31.
12.
Kokovic D. Socijalna antropologija [Social anthropology.
13.
Marjanovic N. Konformisticko ponasanje adolescenata u vrinjackoj grupi. [Conformistic behaviour of adolescent youth in coeval group. Vol. 28, Psychology. p. 123-132,.
14.
Martin SB, Jackson AW, Richardson PA, Weiller KH. Coaching preferences of adolescent youths and their parents. Vol. 11, Journal of Applied Sport Psychology. p. 247–62.
15.
McCutcheon L, Ashe D. Can individualists find satisfaction participating in interactive team sports? Vol. 22, Journal of Sport Behavior. p. 570–7.
16.
Mehrabian A, Stefl CA. Basic temperament components of loneliness, shyness, and conformity. Vol. 23, Social Behavior and Personality. p. 253–64.
17.
Mendoza J. The war on drugs in sport: A perspective from the front-Line. Vol. 12, Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine. Thematic Issue: Drugs and Performance-Enhancing Agents in Sport. p. 254–8.
18.
Narimani M, Ahari S. A study of the relationship between team cohesion, role ambiguity and athletic performance in football team players. Vol. 3, Research Journal of Biological Sciences. p. 47–51.
19.
Niemand J, R. An empirical investigation of the relationship bethween existential meaning-in-life and racial prejudice.
20.
Sherman CA, Fuller R, Speed HD. Gender comparisons of preferred coaching behaviors in Australian sports. Vol. 23, Journal of Sport Behavior. p. 389–406.
21.
Vuckovié I. System of values and motivation of players of First Basketball League of Serbia and Montenegro. In: Scientific symposium New technologies in sport.
22.
Vuckovic I. Morfoloske i socioloske karakteristike kosarkasa seniora.
23.
Vuckovic I, Gadzic A. Senior basketball players conformity. Vol. 11, Homo Sporticus. p. 37–40.
24.
Wildman J. The athlete leader role: interaction of gender, sport type, and coaching style.

Citation

Copyright

Article metrics

Google scholar: See link

The statements, opinions and data contained in the journal are solely those of the individual authors and contributors and not of the publisher and the editor(s). We stay neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations.

Most read articles