Further Support for the Team Identification - Social Psychological Health Model: Relationships between Identification of College Sport Teams, Vitality, and Social Avoidance/Distress among College Students

Abstract

Consistent with predictions derived from the Team Identification – Social Psychological Health Model (Wann, 2006), a large number of empirical investigations have documented the positive relationship between identification with a local college sport team and the social psychological health of students at that university. The two studies reported here extend previous work by examining the relationship between identification and two additional components of social well-being: subjective vitality and social avoidance/distress. As predicted, amount of identification was associated with higher levels of subjective vitality and lower levels of social avoidance and distress. However, because mere sport fandom was also found to predict social avoidance and distress, modifications to the model may be warranted.

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