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- Title
Democratic Leadership Preferred by Male Student Athletes in Middle School Athletic Programs.
- Authors
Tucker, Raymond
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to determine the perceived behavior style of leadership male student athletes in middle school athletic programs prefer their coaches use in their daily relations with their athletes. This study compared male athletes' perception of their coach's behavior style of leadership at three different middle schools to determine if the perceived behavior style of leadership is comparable between male coaches at the respective middle schools in this study. Results of a previous study entitled "Male Athletes Perception of Coaches Behavior in University Interscholastic Middle School Middle Athletic Programs", detected a statistically significant difference in the behavior styles of leadership perceived by male athletes at the respective middle schools in this study in the following dimensions. 1) democratic training, instruction, (2) autocratic, training, and instruction, (3) social support and training instruction, (4) positive feedback and democratic behavior, (5) positive feedback and autocratic behavior, and (6) positive feedback and social support. This previous study did not disclose a statistically significant difference between middle schools in the dimensions of (1) positive feedback, training, and instruction, (2) autocratic and democratic behavior, (3) social support and democratic behavior, (4) social support and autocratic behavior. The data collected from this study was based on male athlete's perception of the behavior style of leadership used by their coaches. The results of this study revealed a high mean score for the democratic behavior style of leadership compared to autocratic behavior, positive feedback, social support, training, and instruction. Based on the results of the data for this study, we can conclude the democratic behavior style of leadership is the behavior style of leadership used by coaches at the respective middle schools in this study. What follows is the basis for this study, procedures used to conduct the research, an analysis of the data, conclusions, application in sport, and finally, recommendations for further research on this topic.
- Subjects
ATHLETES; COACHES (Athletics); LEADERSHIP; MIDDLE school students; STUDENT attitudes; SOCIAL support; TEACHING methods; PHYSICAL training &; conditioning; CHILDREN
- Publication
Sport Journal, 2017, p1
- ISSN
1543-9518
- Publication type
Article