Preferred Leadership Changes Across A Season For Injured And Non Injured Student Athletes

Download or read book Preferred Leadership Changes Across a Season for Injured and Non-injured Student-Athletes written by Sarah E. Wooley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of the study was to examine the preferred leadership changes across the season for injured and non-injured student-athletes. Participants for this study consisted of 33 female fall volleyball (n = 14) and soccer (n = 19) varsity student-athletes. Leadership coaching style preferences were measured using the Leadership Scale for Sport (Preference version). The Leadership Scale for Sport measures five coaching dimensions: Training and Instruction, Democratic Behavior, Autocratic Behavior, Social Support and Positive Feedback. A supplemental questionnaire was used to determine if a student-athlete sustained an injury during their competitive season. The Leadership Scale for Sport was administered during preseason, midseason, and postseason. The supplemental questionnaire was administered during midseason and postseason. Separate 3 (time) × 2 (injury status) mixed analysis of variance (ANOVA) procedures were conducted to evaluate differences in leadership coaching style preference across the season for injured (n = 18) and non-injured student-athletes (n = 15). A two-way ANOVA (Injury Status x Coaching Style) was carried out from the postseason data to assess the difference in coaching style preference between injured and non-injured student-athletes. The study found significant changes for Training and Instruction; Democratic; Autocratic; and Positive Feedback across the season. The study also showed that Training and Instruction and Positive Feedback were the most preferred leadership styles of coaching across a season while Autocratic remained the least preferred. Injured student-athletes preferred both Positive Feedback and Training and Instruction to the other styles of coaching compared to the non-injured student-athletes who preferred Positive Feedback. Injured and non-injured athletes both least preferred Autocratic Behavior. Further research is needed to examine if there is a leadership preference change across a season depending on wins and loses. More studies are also needed to examine coaching style preference change of injured athletes and if type and duration of the injury reflects the preference.