Synergy in Sports Teams: Uncovering Gender Differences in Psychological Safety, Ego Resilience and Collective Efficacy

Abstract

The main aim of the present study was to find out the relationship between psychological safety, ego resilience, collective efficacy, and synergy in sports teams, with a focus on gender differences across these four study variables. For this purpose, data was collected from a sample of 427 athletes (209 girls and 218 boys) from 40 sports teams in Punjab, India ranging between the ages of 17-22 years. Stratified purposive sampling technique was used. Gender was taken as the independent variable and psychological safety, ego resilience, collective efficacy, and synergy were taken as the dependent variables. Correlation, regression and MANOVA was used to analyze the data obtained from the sports teams. The results of the study revealed significant positive correlations between all four variables. Our findings also revealed that the variables of psychological safety, ego resilience, and collective efficacy were strong predictors of synergy. Additionally, significant gender differences were found for all the four variables, with girls’ sports teams scoring lower than the boys’ sport teams.