Attributions of Highly Identified Sports Spectators

Previous research examining the tendency for sports spectators to internalize team successes while externalizing team failures has been inconsistent. Several studies have found support for this success/failure attributional bias, but others have not. The current study tested the hypothesis that the...

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Published in:The Journal of social psychology 1994-12, Vol.134 (6), p.783-792
Main Authors: Wann, Daniel L., Dolan, Thomas J.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic Achievement
Applied psychology
Attribution Theory
Attributions
Audiences
Basketball
Behavior
Bias
Biological and medical sciences
Failure
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Gender Differences
Identification
Indexing in process
Psychological Studies
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Questionnaires
Resistance (Psychology)
Social identity
Social research
Spectators
Sports
Sports fans
Sports officiating
Sports. Leisure
Stadiums
Statistical Analysis
Statistical Data
Statistical Significance
Success
Team Sports
Variance analysis
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Summary:Previous research examining the tendency for sports spectators to internalize team successes while externalizing team failures has been inconsistent. Several studies have found support for this success/failure attributional bias, but others have not. The current study tested the hypothesis that the success/failure bias would be found among American spectators who were high in identification with a target team but that spectators low in identification would be only minimally biased in their attributions concerning competition outcome. The results of a study testing 90 basketball fans varying in degree of identification supported the hypothesis.
ISSN:0022-4545
1940-1183
DOI:10.1080/00224545.1994.9923013