Team situational awareness has great importance in complex and demanding systems (e.g. military and aviation) where synchronized functioning between individuals is a key for successful performance. In sport, where interactions and cooperation are important as well, this cognitive factor is less known. On the other hand, team cohesion as a significant factor in sports performance got more attention in previous researches. The latter defines a team as a unit of individuals within who different social exchanges extend. In the current study, I wanted to explore how uniformity of volleyball situation assessment and team cohesion influence team performance outcomes. On the sample of 15 volleyball teams (N = 84; 31 males and 53 females) which take part in the first and second Slovenian national league, I sought for the most stable model which would describe the relationship between the aforementioned constructs and the team performance outcome in three different times of the season. I also checked for potential differences between teams considering gender and the number of games wined in different stages of the season. I applied the Situational awareness rating technique (SART) and Group environment questionnaire (GEQ). The results show significant negative correlations between uniformity of situation assessments and team performance outcomes regardless of the competition stage. Additionally, negative connections have been found between team cohesion and team performance. Uniformity of situation assessments and an individual's feeling about team interactions showed as important factors of competition's results. In female teams and competitively successful teams, social cohesion plays the most important role in the performance outcome while in male teams the strongest factors are uniformity of situation assessment and task cohesion. The feeling of individual integration towards team goals was the strongest factor in less successful teams. The team performance outcome of different subgroups depends on different factors of cohesion. In addition, the uniformity of situation assessment is not important in each of these subgroups.
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