ROLE CONFLICT AND TEAM CONFLICT AS DEBILITATORS OF COLLECTIVE EFFICACY

The main aim of the current study was to examine role conflict and team conflict as facilitators or debilitators of collective efficacy. Participants were 225 female football players ranging in age from 15 to 36 years (M = 22.20; SD = 4.61), belonging to 13 First Division Female Spanish Football Teams, who filled in different instruments to measure role conflict, team conflict and collective efficacy. The results showed through partial correlations that conflict in the team, both task and relationship, was negatively related to collective efficacy. Nevertheless, role conflict did not show significant relationships with collective efficacy. These outcomes were confirmed in the regression analysis, where only team conflict had a significant and negative prediction regarding collective efficacy. The main conclusion is that group conflicts might have more relevance than role conflict in decreasing confidence in the team's ability to deal with a competition.