Study Regarding the Importance of Developing Group Cohesion in a Volleyball Team

Abstract

Group cohesion is an important factor in sport team performance and can refer to the strength of bonds between group members, the unity of a group, the feeling of attraction between group members or the degree to which members coordinate their efforts to achieve goals, so our study started from the idea that in groups there we can find positive relationships of sympathy, friendship, and cooperation the activity is most effective and the results are better. Analyzing the relationships between members of our team revealed the attractions and rejections, the leader of the group and also the problems from inside the group, the members that were isolated. Using the social-metric test for a volleyball team, we tried to discover how improving the relationships inside the team can influence the performance of our group. After analyzing the results of the social-metric test we’ve applied some methods of team building, exercises for improving group cohesion and measured the performance of our team using a statistic program.