All signs of aggression and hostility appears less
often.
Discussion
The research results confirm our hypothesis that
increased proneness to conflicts, aggression and
hostility adversely influence team cohesion
formation.
Our results are in line with similar studies
conducted with athletes playing in group sports.
The study on individual characteristics of
athletes playing in teams, namely, specializing in
football, performed by Liashenko et al. (2016)
confirmed the correlation between the factors
“sociability” and “proneness to conflicts”. That
is, increased number of conflicts in a team leads
to worsened communications of team members
and, as a consequence, decreases group cohesion.
The works of Pekel and Çimen (2017) and others
show relations between the football team
efficiency and mutual respect and self-esteem of
team players.
For productive communication, athletes must be
prepared for actions in life situations that require
good communication skills, the ability to handle
conflict situations (Ishchenko et al., 2003;
Vasiura, 2006), high self-control skills (Sopov,
2010), and an empathetic attitude toward
teammates Ohromiy et al., 2014; Polat et al.,
2016; Sharp, 1974), which can be formed during
training sessions.
Conclusions
A team psychologist and a coach should take into
account individual characteristics of each
member of the football team, and all team
members should participate in psychological
trainings; this helps to improve team cohesion,
accelerate cohesion process, and increase
teamwork efficiency.
The authors see the prospects for further research
in studies of individual psychological
characteristics of athletes doing other group
sports, and in development of training programs
based on obtained results, which contribute to
more effective team cohesion.
Conflict of interests. There is no conflict of
interest that is to be declared for the article.
Acknowledgments. We would like to thank K.
Kuzimko, a student of Dragomanov NPU, for her
assistance in conducting empirical research.
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