Leadership Preferences In Division Iii Collegiate Athletics

Download or read book Leadership Preferences in Division III Collegiate Athletics written by Rachel A. Simone and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abstract: The study was designed to analyze the preferred coaching leadership styles in Division III Athletics. Participants were limited to male (n=104) and female (n=118) soccer, basketball, cross-country, and swimming/diving student-athletes and coaches (n=15). The Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS; Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980) was distributed to both athletes and coaches. Athletes were distributed the preferred version of the LSS, and coaches were distributed the perceived version of the LSS. Chelladurai (1984) suggested subtracting each individual athlete's score from the corresponding coach's score, this produced a single discrepancy score for each coach-athlete dyad. Using the discrepancy score, 5 2 X 2 Independent Groups ANOVAS were used to analyze if differences existed between male and female individual and team sport student-athletes. In the analysis of the Democratic Leadership subscale of the LSS (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980), no significant interaction was found. For the Autocratic Leadership, Positive Feedback, Social Support, and Training and Instruction subscales of the IJSS (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980), significant interactions were found between gender and sport type for the discrepancy score of each coach-athlete dyad.