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- Title
The Case of a Coaching Change: Do Volleyball Student-Athletes' Attitudes and Stereotypes Change Too?
- Authors
Aicher, Thomas J.; Wells, Janelle E.; Rosely, Melissa K.
- Abstract
In an effort to explain the decline of female head coaches, this study sought to determine how gendered leadership stereotypes affect student-athletes' attitudes towards a new head coach, and investigate if these same stereotypes impact their evaluation and comparison of a man and woman head coach. Utilizing social role and role congruity theories as a theoretical foundation, semistructured interviews were conducted with studentathletes from a women's volleyball team that recently encountered a head coaching change. Findings revealed the woman head coach was perceived as less qualified when she possessed traits inconsistent with her expected leadership role, and was not afforded the same respect or leniency with evaluation as the male head coach.
- Subjects
WOMEN coaches (Athletics); ATHLETES; LEADERSHIP; ATTITUDE (Psychology)
- Publication
Applied Research in Coaching & Athletics Annual, 2016, Vol 31, p172
- ISSN
1546-2323
- Publication type
Article