Σύγκριση μεθόδων

	Sport Fandom Autoethnography	Sport Spectator Identification Scale
Πεδίο	Sport Leisure Studies	Sport Leisure Studies
Οικογένεια	Process / pipeline	Latent structure
Έτος προέλευσης	2000	1993
Δημιουργός	Carolyn Ellis & Arthur Bochner (autoethnography)	Daniel L. Wann & Nyla R. Branscombe
Τύπος	Reflexive qualitative pipeline for narrating and analyzing personal fandom	Single-factor self-report psychometric scale
Θεμελιώδης πηγή	Ellis, C., & Bochner, A. P. (2000). Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject. In N. K. Denzin & Y. S. Lincoln (Eds.), Handbook of Qualitative Research (2nd ed., pp. 733-768). Sage. ISBN: 9780761915126	Wann, D. L., & Branscombe, N. R. (1993). Sports fans: Measuring degree of identification with their team. International Journal of Sport Psychology, 24(1), 1-17.
Εναλλακτικές ονομασίες	Fan Autoethnography, Sport Spectator Autoethnography, Self-Narrative of Fandom, Reflexive Fan Inquiry	SSIS, Sport Spectator Identification, Team Identification Scale
Συναφείς	3	3
Σύνοψη	Sport fandom autoethnography turns the researcher's own experience of being a fan into systematic qualitative inquiry, using the self as a window onto the culture of fandom. Drawing on the method Carolyn Ellis and Arthur Bochner developed and named, it joins three elements -- auto (the self), ethno (culture), and graphy (the writing process) -- so that personal stories of devotion, ritual, heartbreak, and belonging become evidence about how fandom works. The approach ranges from evocative autoethnography, which writes emotionally compelling scenes that let readers feel the fan's world, to more analytic forms that explicitly theorize the cultural patterns the stories reveal. Rather than surveying fans from the outside, the autoethnographer mines remembered epiphanies, match-day field notes, and personal artifacts to show, from within, what it means to live as a supporter.	The Sport Spectator Identification Scale (SSIS) is a seven-item self-report measure of how strongly a fan psychologically identifies with a particular sports team. Daniel Wann and Nyla Branscombe introduced it in 1993 in the International Journal of Sport Psychology, grounding it in social identity theory: a fan who identifies with a team incorporates that team into the self, so the team's successes and failures are experienced as the fan's own. The scale asks respondents, with reference to a team they name, how important it is that the team wins, how strongly they see themselves as fans, how closely they follow the team, and related questions, each rated on an eight-point Likert format and summed into a single identification score. Because team identification predicts a wide range of fan behaviors and well-being outcomes, the SSIS became the standard short instrument for measuring it and the workhorse of decades of sport fan research.