Did You Really Choose Your Football Team?

Did You Really Choose Your Football Team? · 1:56 · Intellect Plus

In short: Studies of fans link fathers, varied social influences and the need to belong to how people come to identify with a team, but they do not show children simply inheriting a parent's team.

A 1:56 short film in the series “Rabbit Hole: Memory, Preference and the Brain”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.

Sources used in this film: Academia.edu (hosting an abstract of Gary Sinclair, 'Sport fandom and parenthood', European Sport Management Quarterly, Informa UK Limited / Taylor & Francis), “Sport fandom and parenthood”; Academia.edu (paper by Nikolaos Tsigilis), “Children’s sport team identification: social psychological processes and developmental perspectives”; Academia.edu (chapter by Nick Hirshon in 'Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Media Fandom', IGI Global, 2020), “Social Identity Theory in Sports Fandom Research”; Academia.edu (author-uploaded copy of a peer-reviewed article; authors, journal and year not shown in the page text), “An examination of sport fandom in the United Kingdom: A comparative analysis of fan behaviors, socialization processes, and team identification.”; University of South Carolina, Scholar Commons (doctoral dissertation repository), “Child Sport Fan Behavior: An Examination of the Effects of Socialization, Branding, and Alternatives on Children’s Psychological Connections to Sports Teams”; PubMed Central (US National Library of Medicine), hosting a review article co-authored by Kelly-Ann Allen and DeLeon Gray, “The Need to Belong: a Deep Dive into the Origins, Implications, and Future of a Foundational Construct”.

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