Sport team culture: Investigating how vertical and horizontal communication influence citizenship behaviors via organizational commitment

Seungmo KIM; Marshall Magnusen; Damon Andrew

doi:10.7352/IJSP2017.48.398

Sport team culture: Investigating how vertical and horizontal communication influence citizenship behaviors via organizational commitment

Seungmo KIM^*, Marshall Magnusen, Damon Andrew

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Department of Sport, Physical Education and Health

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The effects of vertical (coach-athlete) and horizontal (teammate-teammate) communication on athletes' affective commitment and organizational citizenship behaviors (OCB) were examined in this study. A total of340 intercollegiate student-athletes in Hong Kong China participated in the survey. The structural equation modeling (SEM) results supported partial mediating effects of team commitment between vertical communication and OCB. Horizontal communication was measured using four subscales: acceptance, distinctiveness, positive conflict, and negative conflict. Acceptance had direct and indirect effects on OCB via commitment whereas negative conflict had negative indirect effects on OCB via commitment. The positive conflict and distinctiveness subscales were not significant.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	398-418
Number of pages	21
Journal	International Journal of Sport Psychology
Volume	48
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7352/IJSP2017.48.398
Publication status	Published - 1 Jul 2017

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