Abstract
This study aims at investigating the correlation between the sports coaches’ leadership styles and female students’ psychological self-efficacy at high schools of Falavarjan County. This research has descriptive-correlative method and the population of this research consists of all female sports coaches and female students at high schools of Falavarjan County in 2014.The sample size of female students is equal to 324.The measurement tools include the Morgen teacher leadership style questionnaire (2001) and Shrir General self- Efficacy Scale (GSES) (1982).The statistical correlation and regression analysis methods are utilized for data analysis. It indicates that there is a significant positive correlation between sports coaches’ leadership styles and the female students’ psychological self-efficacy at high schools of Falavarjan County. The research results indicate that there is a significant correlation between the task-oriented leadership styles in sports coaches and the sense of general and social self-efficacy in female students at high schools of Falavarjan County (p≤0.05) as well as a significant correlation between the human-oriented leadership styles in sports coaches and the sense of general and social self-efficacy in female students at high schools of Falavarjan County (p≤0.05).
Highlights
If coaches utilize the appropriate leadership styles; it is likely that they will do the sporting activities with higher self-regard and self-efficacy. This question arises whether the sports coaches at high schools of Falavarjan County have been able to provide a sense of self efficacy in sports students by their leadership styles? This study aims to answer the question above
The research results indicate that there is a significant correlation between the taskoriented leadership style in sports coaches and the sense of general and social self-efficacy in female students at high schools of Falavarjan County ( P ≤ 0.05 ).there is a significant correlation between the human-oriented leadership style in sports coaches and the sense of general and social self-efficacy in female students at high schools of Falavarjan County (P ≤ 0.05)
According to the findings of correlation between the sports coaches' leadership styles and the female high school students' psychological self-efficacy in Falavarjan County, there is a positive correlation between the sports coaches' leadership styles and the psychological self-efficacy in high school female students in Falavarjan County
Summary
Gillberston (2000) has introduced seven main factors of leadership including the motivation in group members, the financial resources, goals, creativity, structure and skills as the critical factors in the success of teams or sports organizations. When a group of people tries to achieve a goal, a leader usually takes the responsibility for group. This person should have the skills and qualities necessary for leadership of group in order to guide the group members towards the goal, The Correlation between the Sports Coaches' Leadership Styles and Female Students' Psychological Self-Efficacy at High Schools of Falavarjan County the coaches' leadership style plays the important role in the performance and success of group (Mark, 2001). According to the most important factor in any coaches' success, he should be able to help the players to improve a wide range of skills and their development in physical, technical, tactical and psychological dimensions. The attention to players' sports identity is one of the main factors in determining the managers' behavioral characteristics in new topics of organizational behavior
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