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"Just Going Through the Motions.…": A Qualitative Exploration of Athlete Perceptions of Social Loafing in Training and Competition Contexts - Implications for Team Sport Coaches

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Jones, Gareth, Høigaard, R. and Peters, D.M. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7873-7737 (2014) "Just Going Through the Motions.…": A Qualitative Exploration of Athlete Perceptions of Social Loafing in Training and Competition Contexts - Implications for Team Sport Coaches. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching, 9 (5). pp. 1067-1082. ISSN 1747-9541

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Semi-structured interviews were conducted with twenty team sport athletes representing a range of different sports with the aim of investigating their views relating to social loafing in training and competition. General themes investigated and subsequent content analysis highlighted
factors that promote or reduce the extent of social loafing. Determinants of self-loafing were grouped according to three distinct categories: Group processes; Task characteristics and Individual perceptions. Social loafing among others was perceived to be prevalent in both the training and competition scenarios with more examples of social loafing provided in the training situation. The signs of social loafing were grouped according to the
following themes: Cognitive & Emotional, Behavioural, Communication and Player Intuition. Consequences of social loafing were found to be detrimental to the effort and performance of both the individual and the team. Athletes were also able to differentiate between perceived social loafing and the perceived use of ‘strategic rest’ in team sports. Implications for the coaching process are far reaching with the need to develop an effective team culture and to provide training sessions that are interesting, engaging and relevant.

Item Type:	Article
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Uncontrolled Discrete Keywords:	coaching strategies, social loafing, team sport
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	College of Business, Psychology and Sport > School of Sport and Exercise Science
Related URLs:	Publisher UNSPECIFIED
Depositing User:	Gareth Jones
Date Deposited:	15 Jan 2015 09:41
Last Modified:	17 Jun 2020 17:05
URI:	https://eprints.worc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3513

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