From social identity to team performance: Linking transactive memory systems and teamwork

IF 3.9 2区心理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Psychology of Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2026-01-01 Epub Date: 2025-10-18 DOI:10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.103007

Canberk Ozlu , Umut Sezer , Deniz Durdubas , Ziya Koruc

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Cultivating a shared team identity fosters individuals' sense of belonging and strengthens their connection to the team. Previous studies have demonstrated that having a shared team identity and strongly identified individuals within the group are associated with various positive outcomes. Among these positive outcomes, increasing evidence from the organizational field suggests that a shared identity may serve as a foundational mechanism in the emergence of transactive memory systems (TMS). TMS refers to shared cognitive structures that enable team members to encode, store, and retrieve information collectively. The main objective of this study was to examine the relationship between team identification and transactive memory systems, as well as to investigate their effects on teamwork behaviors and overall performance of sport teams in unique tournament settings. A 3-wave longitudinal research design was employed to examine these associations, involving 167 athletes across 15 teams. Structural equation modelling indicated a significant relationship between team identification and transactive memory systems in the pre-tournament phase. Furthermore, pre-tournament transactive memory systems predicted teamwork behaviors during the tournament, positively influencing overall team performance. Our exploratory findings underscore how the short duration and high-pressure nature of the tournament differentially shaped teams' adaptive responses. Specifically, only mid-ranking teams showed significant improvements in adjustment behaviours from pre-tournament to mid-tournament, whereas both lower- and higher-ranking teams exhibited non-significant change. Based on these findings, to optimize a team's performance in a time-limited context such as tournaments, sport psychologists and coaches are encouraged to cultivate a shared team identity through social identity focused workshops or identity leadership interventions, and social activities with a heightened sense of psychological safety (e.g. open discussions for role clarity), which can develop transactive memory systems and, in turn, enhance teamwork behaviors and overall team performance. Consequently, the present study aims to adopt a collective-cognitive approach to the link between social identity and team performance in a sporting context, and to shed light on how team functioning unfolds under time-constrained conditions.

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从社会认同到团队绩效：关联交互记忆系统与团队合作。

培养共同的团队认同感可以培养个人的归属感，并加强他们与团队的联系。先前的研究表明，拥有共同的团队身份和团队中强烈认同的个人与各种积极的结果有关。在这些积极的结果中，越来越多来自组织领域的证据表明，共享身份可能是交互记忆系统（TMS）出现的基础机制。TMS指的是共享的认知结构，它使团队成员能够共同编码、存储和检索信息。本研究的主要目的是探讨团队认同与互动记忆系统之间的关系，以及它们对团队合作行为和运动团队在特定比赛环境中的整体表现的影响。采用三波纵向研究设计来检验这些关联，涉及15个队的167名运动员。结构方程模型表明，在赛前阶段，团队识别和交互记忆系统之间存在显著关系。此外，赛前互动记忆系统预测了比赛期间的团队行为，积极影响整体团队表现。我们的探索性发现强调了比赛的短时间和高压性质如何不同地塑造了球队的适应性反应。具体来说，只有排名中游的队伍在赛前到中期的调整行为上有显著的改善，而排名较低和较高的队伍都没有表现出显著的变化。基于这些发现，为了优化团队在比赛等有限时间内的表现，鼓励运动心理学家和教练通过以社会身份为重点的研讨会或身份领导干预，以及具有高度心理安全感的社会活动（例如公开讨论角色清晰度）来培养共享的团队身份，这可以发展互动记忆系统，进而提高团队行为和整体团队绩效。因此，本研究旨在采用集体认知的方法来研究体育背景下的社会认同和团队表现之间的联系，并揭示团队功能在时间限制条件下是如何展开的。

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise 医学-心理学

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6.40

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5.90%

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172

审稿时长

69 days

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