The social cohesion of a group, as measured by patterns of network ties, increases with the level of redundancy of interconnections of its members. We will see that the minimal number k of independent paths that connect every pair of actors in a group, the higher the cohesion. The cohesiveness of a group is also measured by the extent to which it is not disconnected by removal of 1, 2, 3,..., n...

Collective gatherings foster group cohesion through providing occasion for emotional sharing among participants. However, prior studies have failed to disentangle two processes that are involved in emotional sharing: 1) focusing shared attention on the same emotion-eliciting event and 2) actively sharing one's experiences and disclosing one's feelings to others. To date, it has remained unteste...

OBJECTIVE Group-based physical training interventions have been shown to be effective in increasing quality of life in cancer survivors. Until now, however, the impact of cohesion within the group on intervention outcome has not been investigated. METHODS We examined self-reported individual group cohesion ratings collected in the first half of a 12-week rehabilitation programme for cancer su...

Notwithstanding the prominence of so-called Standard Model Military Group Cohesion (SMMGC), important parts model are understudied: both conceptually and empirically. In this article we, first, synthesize previous research to conceptualize measure overlooked institutional cohesion dimension. Second, we test validity proposed full four-dimensional SMMGC using a survey an Italian Alpini battalion...

BACKGROUND Authentic leadership (AL) is a kind of leadership that inspires and promotes positive psychological capacities, underlining the moral and ethical component of behavior. The proposed investigation studies the relations among AL, cohesion, and group identification in security and emergency teams. METHOD A cross-sectional research design was conducted in which participated 221 members...

The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between group cohesion and the perceived culture and desired culture of work teams. Two separate studies were carried out with a time interval of one year. The first study had a sample of 50 work teams belonging to different organizations and the second study had a sample of 75 work teams. We used Lindell's index of agreement to estimate th...