Changes in Liikunnan Riemu's football team's cohesion during EUSA Games in Rotterdam

2016

The aim of this study was to examine Liikunnan Riemu’s football team’s changes in cohesion during European Universities Sports Association Games in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The basis for this study was to quantitatively examine cohesion using Carron’s and his colleagues (1985) developed Group Environmental Questionnaire for sport teams. The GEQ is divided into four dimensions which describe cohesion more accurately. High cohesion has been shown to lead to success in sports and vice versa (Carron et al. 2002; Rovio 2009; Voight & Callaghan 2001). The participants were students from University of Jyväskylä, mostly from the department of Sport Science. Altogether 26 answers were collected. The …