The effects of social identity and social identity content on cohesion, efficacy, and performance across a competitive rugby league season

Social identity (one's sense of belongingness to a group) and social content (what it means belong are important psychological constructs for cognition behaviour. Whilst some longitudinal research exists, researchers have yet explore the temporal effects in sport. Across competitive season, we therefore explored main interactive two types (results friendships) on cohesion, self team-level efficacy, subjective team performance. Participants were 167 male rugby league athletes (Mage = 18.16 ± 0.44 years) drawn from all eight teams competing single English Premier Rugby League Division. At start, middle, end their nine-week participants completed series measures. Multilevel modelling analyses found that significantly positively predicted study outcomes amongst athletes, efficacy across time. As athletes’ strengthened so too did efficacy. Also at time-level, interaction between friendships In other words, was throughout season when high. Overall, our findings suggest is The lack results/friendships contents may be attributable adopting creativity by altering importance placed results season.