This area is associate with social behavior in sport and shaping the social environment of sport. The research may focus on within-group processes, group outcomes, and perception or experiences of the group processes, among other aspects of group dynamics. The projects will address areas of interesses such as group dynamics, Leadership, coach–athlete relationships, Motivation, Social and Cognitive Processes, and athlete in the Wider Sport Environment, such as gender issues, social inclusion, long term development in and through Sport and Physical Activity, ethics and morality.


Keywords:group dynamics, Leadership, Coach–athlete relationships


General Objective

  • The research will focus on within-group processes, group outcomes, and perception or experiences of the group processes, among other aspects of group dynamics and testing various methodological approaches to improve adaptation and outcomes.


Specific objectives

  • Evaluate the associations between cohesion and variables such as adherence behaviors in both sport and exercise groups, social loafing, group size, leadership, role involvement variables, collective efficacy, and morality.
  • Investigate the athlete's satisfaction with the training process and assess the impact on their personal development
  • Investigate the coach's perspective on the influence that sport and his action have on the integral development of the athlete.


References

  • Borrego, C., Monteiro, D., Benson, A. J., Miguel, M., Teixeira, E., & Silva, C. (2021). Disentangling the effects of ego and task-involving climate perceptions on cohesion in youth sport (Desvendando os efeitos das percepções do ego e do clima envolvente da tarefa na coesão no desporto juvenil). Sport, Exercise, and Performance Psychology, 10(4), 558-570. https://doi.org/10.1037/spy0000270
  • Gomes, A. R., Simães, C., Morais, C., & Resende, R. (2021). Psychometric properties of the Multidimensional Sport Leadership Scale comparison to Multifactorial Leadership Questionnaire (Propriedades psicométricas do Multidimensional Sport Leadership Scale em comparação com o Multifatorial Leadership Questionnaire). International Journal of Sport Psychology, 52, 189-212. https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP.2021.52.189
  • Borrego, C. (2023). La cohesión como elemento integrador en la actividad física. In R. S.-R. Ramón Mendoza Berjano & Begoña Gil Barcenilla (Ed.), La promoción de la actividad física en la sociedad contemporánea (Vol. I, pp. 545-556). Diaz de Santos
  • Gomes, A. R. (2021). Coaching efficacy: The Leadership Efficacy Model (Eficácia do treinador: O Modelo de Eficácia da Liderança). In R. Resende & A. R. Gomes (Eds.), Coaching for human development and performance in sports (pp. 43-72). Springer.
  • Kelso, A., Linder, S., Reimers, A. K., Klug, S. J., Alesi, M., Scifo, L., Borrego, C. C., Monteiro, D., & Demetriou, Y. (2020). Effects of school-based interventions on motivation towards physical activity in children and adolescents: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 51, 101770. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2020.101770
  • Teques, P., Calmeiro, L., Silva, C., & Borrego, C. (2020). Validation and adaptation of the physical activity enjoyment scale (PACES) in fitness group exercisers. Journal of Sport and Health Science, 4(9), 352-357. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jshs.2017.09.010
  • Callary, B., Brady, A., Kiosoglous, C., Clewer, P., Resende, R., Mehrtens, T., Wilkie, M., & Horvath, R. (2020). Making sense of coach development worldwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Compreender o desenvolvimento de treinadores a nível mundial durante a pandemia de COVID-19. Internacional). International Journal of Sport Communication, 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1123/ijsc.2020-0221


Project Coordinators

  • Carla Chicau Borrego - Principal Investigator
  • Rui Resende - Co-Investigator

Research team

  • Alan de Carvalho Dias Ferreira (integrado)
  • Samuel Honório (integrado)
  • Carlos Manuel Marques da Silva(integrado)
  • Alfredo Silva (integrado)

MSc/PhD students

  • José Araujo (PhD student)
  • João Paulo Duarte (Msc student)
  • Luis Alcobia, (Msc student)
  • Bernardo Pedro, (Msc student)
  • Miguel Lopes, (Msc student)
  • Pedro Abranja (Msc student)

Related projects

  • Research member: Carla Chicau Borrego (head of the national project), Alfredo Silva | Title: Universal Sports for Social Impact – USSI| Period: 2025-2027 | ID: VS/2021/0042 | Funder: ERASMUS-SPORT-2024-CB— Capacity Building in The Field Of Sport |Funding: 240,000.00 euros
  • Research members: Carla Chicau Borrego, Susana Franco e Vera Simões | Title: Healthy Lifestyle Network Europe | Period: 2024-2026| ID: 101133533 | Funder: European Comission, ERAMUS | Funding: 400,000.00 euros
  • Research member: Carla Chicau Borrego, Carlos Silva| Title: The empowering-disempowering motivational climate perceived by a degree student with the intention of becoming a teacher? A longitudinal studio with a teacher in training| Period: 2021-2022| ID: P20_00148| Funder: Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades | Funding: 33,200.00 euros
  • Research member: Carla Chicau Borrego (head of the national project), Alfredo Silva, Carlos Silva e Susana Franco| Title: National Studies about the representativeness of the sport sector | Period: 2021-2022 | ID: VS/2021/0042 | Funder: European Comission, |Funding: 59,615.00 euros
  • Research member: Carla Chicau Borrego| Title: National Programme of Ethics in Sport| Period: 2020-2021| ID: National Programme of Ethics in Sport| Funder: Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth Funding: 25,000.00 euros
  • Research members: Carla Chicau Borrego, Susana Franco e Vera Simões | Title: New Health 2022| Period: 2020-2022| ID: 613045-EPP-1-2019-1-NL-SPO-SCP | Funder: European Comission, ERAMUS | Funding: 369,250.00 euros
  • Research member: Carla Chicau Borrego, Carlos Silva | Title: Enriched Sport Activities Program | Period: 2017-2019 | ID: 2016-3723/001-00| Funder: European Comission, Erasmus+| Funding: 498,000.00euros

Sponsors

  • European Comission
  • Consejería de Transformación Económica, Industria, Conocimiento y Universidades
  • Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth Funding

Focus on within-group processes, group outcomes, and perception or experiences of the group processes, among other aspects of group dynamics.


PI: Carla Chicau Borrego; Co-PI: Rui Resende

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