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Athletes’ Competitive Experience as a determinant of the conformity 2013 http://ezaposleni.singidunum.ac.rs/rest/sciNaucniRezultati/oai/record/1/2677 http://www.eqol.uns.ac.rs/archive.htm I. Vučković A. Gadžić The object of the present study was conformity as a behavioural manner toward the coach and club management. The study aim was to determine differences in the conformity degree between less experienced and more experienced athletes divided into 4 subsamples: individual female athletes, individual male athletes, team sport female athletes and team sport male athletes. The sample was made of 160 athletes, both genders. The study instrument was the Conformity Scale, (The Conformity Scale; Mehrabian, & Stefl, 1995), used and confirmed in 2 earlier researches by Vučković et al. (2009, 2010). The data were analysed by non-parametric Mann-Whitney test. Upon the analysis, we confirmed following: Individual female athletes and individual male athletes are conformists toward coach to a great extent. There are no significant differences between less experienced and more experienced athletes for both genders. Prevailing opinion among these athletes is that their successful performance greatly depends on their good relations with the coach and club management. Less experienced team sport female athletes are bigger conformists toward the club management. It seems that years of sport experience are necessary in order to clearly see the difference between the roles of the coach and the club management. Team sport male athletes expressed somewhat different opinion compared to the other 3 subsamples. More experienced male athletes showed less conformity toward the coach then the club management. Probably team sport male athletes were very satisfied with current club management; herewith have grounds for their attitudes toward the club management. conferenceObject 471 478 Зборник радова