TY  - JOUR
AB  - Individuals strive to attach themselves to social groups that reflect positively on the way they view themselves (Tajfel, 1972, 1982; Tajfel & Turner, 1979). While social categories span a myriad of activities, pursuits and organizations, sport teams provide a pertinent example of social categories from which individuals derive social identity benefits (Cialdini & Richardson, 1980). As a result, social identity theory has been extensively applied to sport consumers as a framework contributing to understanding of identity formation (Fisher & Wakefield, 1998; James, 2001), strength (Wann & Branscombe, 1993, 1995), structure (Heere & James, 2007) and management for sport fans (Cialdini et al., 1976; Cialdini & Richardson, 1980; Snyder, Lassegard, & Ford, 1986).
AU  - Lock, D
AU  - Taylor, TL
AU  - Funk, D
AU  - Darcy, SA
DA  - 2012/01/01
EP  - 294
JO  - Journal of Sport Management
PB  - North American Society for Sport Management
PY  - 2012/01/01
SP  - 283
TI  - Exploring the development of team identification: the contribution of social identity and the psychological continuum model
VL  - 26
Y1  - 2012/01/01
Y2  - 2026/05/01
ER  -