Katrien Fransen

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC no. 70962001) to support the work of the second author.

TL;DR: It can be concluded that leadership is spread throughout the team; informal leaders rather than the captain take the lead, both on and off the field.

TL;DR: An effect of team confidence contagion such that team members had greater team confidence when the leader expressed high (rather than low) confidence in the team's success was revealed, which was partially mediated by team members' increased team identification.

TL;DR: A review of the existing literature relating to athlete leadership seeking to provide clarity regarding current understanding is provided in this article, where the authors highlight future areas for research and theoretical development, while the development of leadership skills has been proposed as an important aspect of coach development programmes, there is very little consensus regarding the approaches that should be adopted in developing athlete leaders and their associated leadership skills.

TL;DR: The Identity Leadership Inventory (ILI) as discussed by the authors ) is a four-dimensional model of identity leadership that centres on leaders' management of a shared sense of "we" and "us".