title: Team performance and collective efficacy in the dynamic psychology of competitive team: a Bayesian network analysis.
abstract: The purpose of this paper was to discover the relationships among 22 relevant psychological features in semi-professional football players in order to study team's performance and collective efficacy via a Bayesian network (BN). The paper includes optimization of team's performance and collective efficacy using intercausal reasoning pattern which constitutes a very common pattern in human reasoning. The BN is used to make inferences regarding our problem, and therefore we obtain some conclusions; among them: maximizing the team's performance causes a decrease in collective efficacy and when team's performance achieves the minimum value it causes an increase in moderate/high values of collective efficacy. Similarly, we may reason optimizing team collective efficacy instead. It also allows us to determine the features that have the strongest influence on performance and which on collective efficacy. From the BN two different coaching styles were differentiated taking into account the local Markov property: training leadership and autocratic leadership.
authors.affiliation: Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Universitat IllesBalears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain. Electronic address: pilar.fuster@uib.es.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Fuster-Parra
authors.affiliation: Psychology Faculty, Universitat IllesBalears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: García-Mas
authors.affiliation: Education Faculty, Universitat IllesBalears, Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Ponseti
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Sport Sciences, Universidad de Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain.
authors.forename: F M
authors.initials: FM
authors.lastname: Leo
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D056352:Athletes; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D005538:Football; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D007858:Learning; D008297:Male; D010379:Peer Group; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cohesion; Human performance; Team building; Team processes; Team theory