When efficacy beliefs affect team attributions: relationships between self- and collective efficacy beliefs and team attributions over time.
BACKGROUND
This study investigated the extent to which efficacy beliefs and perceptions of team performance influenced team causal attributions overtime.


METHODS
A total of 258 undergraduate students were assigned to a three or four person team and played three games against three different opponents in a semi-round robin team bowling tournament.


RESULTS
Multilevel modelling analyses revealed that individuals' perceptions in team performance were positively associated with internal, stable, and team controllable attributions. Collective efficacy beliefs positively predicted team attributions overtime; whereas, self-efficacy beliefs were a negative predictor of team attributions across the tournament.


CONCLUSIONS
The results indicated that individuals' perceptions of their team's success/failure were the stronger determinant of team attributions than their team's winning/losing and, as well as, the efficacy beliefs - team attributions relationships were moderated by time.
Division of Kinesiology and Sport Management, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, USA - jhchung@sm.ac.kr.
Veronica
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Son
Jihye
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Chung
Jae P
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D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010465:Perception; D020377:Self Efficacy; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*; D013997:Time Factors; D055815:Young Adult