In the current study, the explored the moderating role of ageing in the relationship between
team identification/fandom and fan aggression. The authors used an online panel-based …

Purpose: This research sought to examine the team identification, motives, and behaviours
of fans of a women's sport team as well as those of a men's team to identify any differences …

Sport clubs introduce esports activities under their brand name. Discussions of that decision
by fans in social media might reinforce or destabilise the identity of the brand. Fan …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to evaluate the psychometric properties of each item in
the Sport Spectator Identification Scale (SSIS)(Wann and Branscombe, 1993) using the item …

A national sample of 390 self-identified National Basketball Association (NBA) fans were
asked motivational differences regarding use of four unique forms of social media …

In a bid to revive soccer's fortunes in Australia, the A-League was created whereby private
franchises represented the country's major cities. This article examines the Melbourne Heart …

Homeland attachment plays an important role in identification with a sports team, but when a
fan has two local teams to choose from, other factors come into play. This study used mixed …

Since 1952, the social bases of the Democratic and Republican parties have undergone
radical reshuffling. At the start of this period southern Blacks favored Lincoln's Republican …

The purpose of the present study was to develop a new scale, based on social identity
theory, for measuring the levels of fans' identification with their favorite sport team …

Although prior studies have reported that distant (ie, foreign) team identification can predict
several benefits for sport teams, few attempts have been made to examine the factors that …