PERCEIVED TEAM AND PLAYER EFFICACY IN HOCKEY

This study was designed to examine both the pattern of team and player efficacy across a season of competition and the relationships among p layer efficacy, team efficacy, and team performance in collegiate ice hockey. The team and player efficacies of hockey players from 6 teams in a midwestern collegiate hockey league were assessed prior to 32 gam es. Official game statistics were factor analyzed to produce one useab le performance measure, performance outcome. A consensus analysis demo nstrated that players held homogeneous beliefs regarding their own and their teams' abilities to perform successfully. A meta-analysis of th e regression equations for each team confirmed the homogeneity among t eams and the predictive superiority of team efficacy in predicting tea m performance. Also, when team wins and losses were analyzed across th e season, team efficacy significantly increased after a win and signif icantly decreased after a loss, but player efficacy was not affected.