Team cohesion

• Festinger (1963) states that cohesiveness is the total field of forces that act on members to remain in the group
• According to Carron (1980) cohesion has 2 dimensions

  • Group integration
  • Individual Attraction
• Group integration


  Is how the individual members of the group feel about the group as a whole.
• Individual attraction to the group

  is how attracted the individuals are to the group.