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The influence of the social status, micro social team structure and group cohesion on the scoring efficiency of elite Croatian junior national team handball players

This study was conducted to determine the influence of the social status, micro social team structure and group cohesion on the scoring efficiency of elite Croatian junior national handball players. The participants of the study were 16 players which were the members of the junior Croatian national handball team which played at the IHF men’s junior World Championship held in 2013 in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Three questionnaires were conducted which assess the social status, micro social team structure and group cohesion. The scoring efficiency was collected from the official statistics of the matches. The descriptive statistics methods, correlation analysis, and the multiple regression analysis were used to analyze the results. The correlation analysis of the items assessing the social status revealed only a significant positive correlation of the variable Player listening to popular music with the Scoring efficiency (r = 0, 60 ; p = 0, 02). The results of the questionnaire which assesses the micro social structure reveal that there is a higher degree and more refined level of emotional relations than functional relations within the team. The results from the group cohesion questionnaire revealed that there is a slightly higher level of the emotional cohesion dimension than the functional cohesion dimension. The multiple regression analysis revealed a statistical significant relation between the social status, micro social traits and group cohesion with the dependent variable scoring efficiency (pmr > 0.01). The independent group shares 66% of the total variance with the scoring efficiency which refers to a strong influence of the overall measured social dimensions on the scoring efficiency of the junior handball players. The multiple regression results point out to the fact that the team players which scored a higher number of goals have lower levels of micro social and group cohesion values and the players which scored less goals have higher levels of micro social traits and group cohesion values. In a global sense the bad micro social structure has a negative influence on the players scoring.

social dimensions ; influence ; scoring ; junior ; handball

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