After having attended a friendly football match between Chelsea FC and Dynamo Moscow to mark the end of World War II, the novelist George Orwell (1945) famously remarked that …
First paragraph: Flick through any autobiography of a celebrated athlete and you will find that one of its key themes is social support. Certainly there will be discussions of training and …
The purpose of this thesis was to conduct and report an original investigation into the mechanisms of social support's effects upon sport-related outcomes using the social identity …