Sinnema, T. (Tim) (2013) The effect of task responsibility on the performance of individuals within a volleyball team. thesis, Human Movement Sciences.
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Abstract
The effect of task responsibility and group size on individual performance within teams is well studied in many areas of research, from a cognitive and physical perspective. The present study focuses on the role of task responsibility in the field of dynamical and interactive sports like volleyball. It is hypothesized that during a volleyball reception the performance of passers change as task responsibility changes with team size, reflecting performance losses due to increased interpersonal coordination demands and psychological factors like social loafing. More specifically, we explored whether passers' performances would be different if they had to perform a subsequent task then if they had to pass to a third person (setter). Thirteen experienced volleyball players participated in the study, which were divided into dyads. Each receiver dyad participated in two conditions: the standard condition in which only passing was required and the beach condition in which after passing, a subsequent task had to be performed. Position data of participants was retrieved from full HD video data resulting in: initial position (IP, position at the moment of service) pass position (PP, position at the moment of pass contact) and movement (distance between IP and PP). Even though results do not show a significant effect on individual performance within a team, a trend was found that with lowered task responsibility the performance of passers decreased. It is also suggested that individual behavior changes as a result of task responsibility, since players' IP and PP were different between conditions. In future research the study could be replicated with controlled services, in order to make more solid statements considering the results.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Thesis) |
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| Supervisor name: | Poel, Harjo J. de and Center for Human Movement Sciences, University Medical Cente and Groningen, Groningen |
| Faculty: | Medical Sciences |
| Date Deposited: | 25 Jun 2020 11:06 |
| Last Modified: | 25 Jun 2020 11:06 |
| URI: | https://umcg.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/2632 |
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