The Influence of Emotion in the Management of Amateur Football Organizations

Frontiers in Psychology

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Melany Hebles¹  Vicente Javier Prado-Gascó²  Orlando Llanos-Contreras¹  Mario Alguacil³ 

[1] Management Department, Faculty of Economics and Management Science, Catholic University of the Most Holy Conception;Social Psychology Department, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia;Department of Teaching and Learning of Physical, Faculty of Teaching and Educational Sciences, Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Mártir

关键词: affective commitment;    emotional attachment;    emotions in sport management;    leadership;    loyalty;    organizational identification;    service quality;    sport management;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2020.02218

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

This article is oriented to the analysis of organizational and emotional variables in amateur sporting organizations. The general objective is to analyze the influence of organizational variables such as service quality, transactional leadership, and transformational leadership and emotional variables such as affective commitment, emotional attachment investment, and emotional attachment dividend to predict the credibility that members of amateur sporting organizations perceive, as well as their degree of identification and loyalty. The opinions of 203 members of Chilean amateur football teams [169 men and 34 women, with ages between 18 and 68 years (mean = 32.75 years, DT = 9.92)] have been analyzed through a self-completed questionnaire. To reach the objectives, two types of differential but complementary analyses, in the form of hierarchical regression models (from hereon, HRMs) and qualitative comparative analysis (from hereon, QCA), were performed. The results obtained suggest that the organizational variables are better predictors than the emotional variables in all of the cases. In the same way, the inclusion of the emotional variables improves the predictive capacity of the proposed models to explain identification and loyalty, but not in the case of credibility. In general, the variables considered seem to explain 37% of the credibility, 56% of loyalty, and 65% of identification. On the other hand, considering the results of the QCA, no variable turned out to be necessary. However, different combinations of variables (conditions) were observed that were able to explain between 47 and 91% of the cases of the variables analyzed. In general, based on these results, it was observed that the emotional variables were important in interaction with other organizational ones since they are present in the three combinations that most explain identification and loyalty and are also present in the three combinations that most explain credibility. This study contributes to the literature by supporting the importance of managing emotions in order for sporting organizations to be more successful.

【 授权许可】

CC BY