Investigating Humor and Team Cohesion in Sports Environments

Abstract

The purpose of the present research is to investigate the sense of humor and team cohesion in sports environments. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and quantitative in terms of method. The statistical population of the research is male adult group and individual athletes in the premier league. Group disciplines include football, basketball, volleyball, and handball, and individual disciplines include wrestling, taekwondo, swimming, and cycling. The statistical sample includes 17 athletes from 8 different disciplines, including coaches and athletes in group and individual disciplines of adult men in the Premier League. The stratified sampling method is random. In order to measure dependent humor, self-enhancing humor, self-enhancing humor, self-enhancing humor is measured from the 32-item humor questionnaire of Martin, 2003 with a 7-value spectrum. Average There is a meaningful difference between dependent humor , self - aggrandizing humor , aggressive humor , and self - defeating humor . . Finally , according to the tests , it was observed that humor and its components have a significant relationship with group cohesion and its components in sports . The results showed that humor and its components have a significant relationship with players' interest in their coach in individual sports . The result showed that the use of humor by the athletes does not increase self-esteem and the use of the coach Dependent humor (both positive humor styles ) was associated with increased interest in the coach, while athletes ' use of self - actualizing humor ( a negative humor style ) was associated with decreased interest . The head coach was in touch.