An injured athlete may feel that he is jeopardizing his team's ability to succeed at a critical time. ... A lot of the time injury leads to decreased self esteem, which can consequently result in irrational thinking. ... With all the emotions and irrational thinking it is easy for an athlete to experience feelings of separation, loneliness, guilt and a loss of identity and independence, because they feel that they are no longer contributing to the team and that they are dependent upon others in the rehabilitative process. (Quackenbush, 1994) It is very important for an athlete to contro...

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Among these skills, employment authorities consider the most critical skills to have in an organizational team environment to be collaboration and teamwork (Luca & Tarricone, 2001). ... In other words, it is an individual based perception of what defines "us" associated with internalized group membership (Taifel & Turner, 1979). ...

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