Original scientific paper
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BASKETBALL MORE AND LESS SUCCESSFUL SENIOR ELITE TEAMS IN CONATIVE CHARACTERISTICS
Joško Sindik
; Institut za antroplogiju, Zagreb
Abstract
The aim of our study was to determine differences
between the players in more successful and less successful
basketball teams, in conative characteristics: mental
strength, perfectionism, and perceived group cohesion.
The final sample of respondents (74 players) is selected
from the initial sample of 107 subjects, nine men's senior
basketball team's A-1 Croatian men's basketball league
championship in 2006/2007. Discriminant analysis was
performed, for all the variables of conative characteristics
and their dimensions, between the players who play in
more successful and less successful teams in the Croatian
championship.
The results showed that players who play in more or
less successful teams do not differ, based on a set of
conative characteristics and perceived group cohesion.
On the other hand, players in more or less successful
teams differ on the basis set used to estimate the extreme
rsponses on the scales of conative characteristics and
perceived group cohesion. No statistically significant
differences were found between the players more and less
successful teams in conative characteristics, but the
differences are significant in number of extreme estimates
used on scales of conative characteristics and perceived
group cohesion.
Keywords
discrimination; perfectionism; mental strength; cohesion; extreme estimates
Hrčak ID:
78039
URI
Publication date:
30.12.2011.
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