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Research Note

How Status Conflict Undermines Athletes' Willingness to Help New Teammates

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Pages 358-365 | Received 31 Jan 2017, Accepted 23 Sep 2017, Published online: 31 Oct 2017
 

Abstract

Drawing from theory on social hierarchy and intragroup behaviors, the current study examined whether status conflicts attenuate willingness to help newcomers. Using experimental vignettes with high-level team sport athletes (N = 112), the results demonstrated that athletes were less willing to help high-status newcomers who played the same position than newcomers who played (a) a different position and (b) the same position but were described to be lower status. Our findings show that when positional competition creates a salient status threat, this can curtail an athlete's willingness to help in the socialization processes of a teammate.

Notes

1 Skewness (−1.09 to −0.31) and kurtosis (−0.12 to 1.76) of the residuals for the measures were acceptable, and the assumption of sphericity was supported by a nonsignificant Mauchly's test. We also examined whether the pattern of results differed as a function of athletes' self-identified starting status (dummy coded 1 = starter, 0 = nonstarter) or sex of the participant (dummy coded 1 = female, 0 = male). There was no significant interaction between self-identified starting status and the two manipulated factors (newcomer status and position) in relation to sharing information (p = .556), motivational orientation toward newcomer (p = .670) or sponsorship mentoring (p = .477). Likewise, there was no significant interaction between participant sex and the manipulated factors in relation to sharing information (p = .892), motivational orientation toward newcomer (p = .604), or sponsorship mentoring (p = .948).

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