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Exploring the relationship between coaches' leadership style and athletes' self efficacy in selected track and field events
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Exploring the relationship between coaches' leadership style and athletes' self efficacy in selected track and field events

N Jaafar, S Cotterill, A Parker and Geoff Lovell
British Psychological Society: Division of Sport and Exercise Psychology Conference, 2010 (London, United Kingdom, 09-Dec-2010–10-Dec-2010)
British Psychological Society
2010
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Human Movement and Sports Science coaching leadership efficacy levels
Understanding the relationship between coaches' leadership styles and athletes' self-efficacy is important as the coach is a crucial factor influencing athlete achievement. To date there is little research exploring this relationship in any great detail in Malaysian populations. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between the coaches' leadership styles and athlete self-efficacy beliefs among track and field athletes. It was hypothesised that there would be no relationship between coaches' leadership styles and athlete self-efficacy beliefs in both sprint and hurdle athletes. Participants were 60 athletes (26 males and 34 females) from three TEIs in Malaysia. The data was collected using two specific inventories; the Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS) athletes' version and a specific self-efficacy measure developed following Bandura's (2006) recommendations for measuring self-efficacy in a sporting context. The athletics events technical templates published by the International Association of Athletic Federation (IAAF) were utilised to determine the technical aspects of athletes' performance for the self efficacy measure. The inventories were administered during 10 days of centralised training programmes. Factor analysis testing was applied to the self-efficacy inventory to test the validity and reliability of the construct items. The results showed reliability for both sprint (.88) and hurdle (.88) groups. Pearson Correlation analysis was administered to assess the relationship between leadership styles and efficacy variables, a relationship between leadership styles and self-efficacy levels for sprint and hurdle (p<.05) was identified. These results suggest that the coaches' leadership style contributes to the athletes' self-efficacy levels. This highlights the importance of the coaches' leadership style in enhancing athlete efficacy beliefs and performance. A greater understanding of the relationship between leadership style and self-efficacy will enable coaches to increase athlete efficacy levels and ultimately lead to enhanced performance.

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