Assessing leadership styles of coaches and testing the augmentation effect in s...

• Author(s): Gomes, António Rui ; Resende, Rui
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/1822/26923
• Origin: RepositóriUM - Universidade do Minho
• Subject(s): Sports leadership; Satisfaction with leadership; Coach-athlete compatibility
• Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
• Language: English

Description

This chapter proposes an instrument to evaluate leadership styles in three domains (e.g., transformational, transactional, and decision-making leadership) and test the augmentation effect of these domains on the explanation of satisfaction with leadership and coach-athlete compatibility. In total, 348 male athletes who play futsal and soccer were recruited. We evaluated leadership styles, satisfaction with leadership, and coach-athlete compatibility. The confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated acceptable fit levels for the organization of the leadership scales with second-order factors of transformational leadership and two correlated factors for transactional and decision-making leadership. Confirmatory factor analysis also point out acceptable fit levels for the measures of satisfaction with leadership and coach-athlete compatibility. The hierarchical regression analysis indicated the predictive value of the leadership domains for explaining satisfaction with leadership (61% of variance explained) and coach-athlete compatibility (50% of variance explained). We found partial support for the validity of the leadership scale and confirmed the augmentation effect.