The Effect of Mobbing Behaviors on Handball Players’ Organizational Commitment in Turkish Men’s Handball Super League

Abstract

This study focused on the field of sports and aimed to examine the effect of mobbing behaviors on the organizational commitment of handball players. The sample of the study consisted of players from handball clubs in the Turkish Men’s Handball Super League. In the study, 137 male players from 8 handball clubs participated. As data collection tools, two different scales were used to determine mobbing behaviors and organizational commitment of handball players. To measure mobbing “Negative Acts Questionnaire–Football (NAQ–F)” developed by Yildiz (2015) was used (see appendix). The word football on the scale had been converted to the word handball. The organizational commitment scale proposed by Meyer and Allen (1991) and developed by Meyer, Allen, and Smith (1993) was used to measure organizational commitment. Descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, correlation, and regression analyzes were performed for the data. The analysis results indicated that the handball players' level of mobbing exposure was low, and their organizational commitment was moderate. Other results revealed that mobbing behaviors had a significant and negative effect on the organizational commitment of handball players (β=-.274; p<0.01). According to the results of the study, it can be said that the organizational commitment (team commitment) of handball players who are exposed to mobbing behaviors will decrease. In this context, various suggestions were given to both club managers and coaches at the end of the study.