Athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship

The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediation role of athlete satisfaction on the relationship between transformational leadership style of Iranian high schools’ coaches and sport commitment of Iranian high schools’ football players and also to develop a coaching model. The survey desig...

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Main Authors: Saybani, H., Yusof, A., Soon, C., Hassan, Aminuddin, Zardoshtian, S.
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Language:English
Published: IDOSI Publications 2013
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author Saybani, H.
Yusof, A.
Soon, C.
Hassan, Aminuddin
Zardoshtian, S.
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Yusof, A.
Soon, C.
Hassan, Aminuddin
Zardoshtian, S.
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description The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediation role of athlete satisfaction on the relationship between transformational leadership style of Iranian high schools’ coaches and sport commitment of Iranian high schools’ football players and also to develop a coaching model. The survey design, correlational study and inferential statistics were applied in this research. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was applied as a strong procedure to analyze the data and develop the models. Population of this study was 558 football players (15-20 years). 280 high schools’ football players were selected to participate in this study by using the simple random sampling procedure. Instruments of the study were MLQ (Avolio and Bass, 1995), SCMS (Scanlan,et al., 1993) and ASQ ( Riemer and Chelladurai, 1998). Moreover, SEM and ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) applied for testing hypotheses of the study. The results of the study indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership style of coaches and athlete’s satisfaction of football players. In addition, athlete satisfaction significantly mediated the relationship between transformational leadership style of coaches and sport commitment of football players. All fit indices of the measurement and mediation models were acceptable. There these models were fit the data of the current study. Findings of this study revealed that transformational coaches with increasing satisfaction of football players would increase the sport commitment of football players.
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spelling upm-289702016-02-03T01:59:55Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28970/ Athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship Saybani, H. Yusof, A. Soon, C. Hassan, Aminuddin Zardoshtian, S. The purpose of this study was to investigate the mediation role of athlete satisfaction on the relationship between transformational leadership style of Iranian high schools’ coaches and sport commitment of Iranian high schools’ football players and also to develop a coaching model. The survey design, correlational study and inferential statistics were applied in this research. The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was applied as a strong procedure to analyze the data and develop the models. Population of this study was 558 football players (15-20 years). 280 high schools’ football players were selected to participate in this study by using the simple random sampling procedure. Instruments of the study were MLQ (Avolio and Bass, 1995), SCMS (Scanlan,et al., 1993) and ASQ ( Riemer and Chelladurai, 1998). Moreover, SEM and ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) applied for testing hypotheses of the study. The results of the study indicated that there is a positive and significant relationship between transformational leadership style of coaches and athlete’s satisfaction of football players. In addition, athlete satisfaction significantly mediated the relationship between transformational leadership style of coaches and sport commitment of football players. All fit indices of the measurement and mediation models were acceptable. There these models were fit the data of the current study. Findings of this study revealed that transformational coaches with increasing satisfaction of football players would increase the sport commitment of football players. IDOSI Publications 2013 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/28970/1/Athletes%27%20satisfaction%20as%20mediator%20of%20transformational%20leadership%20behaviors%20of%20coaches%20and%20football%20players%27%20sport%20commitment%20relationship.pdf Saybani, H. and Yusof, A. and Soon, C. and Hassan, Aminuddin and Zardoshtian, S. (2013) Athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship. World Applied Sciences Journal, 21 (10). pp. 1475-1483. ISSN 1818-4952; ESSN: 1991-6426 http://www.idosi.org/wasj/wasj21(10)2013.htm
spellingShingle Saybani, H.
Yusof, A.
Soon, C.
Hassan, Aminuddin
Zardoshtian, S.
Athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship
title Athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship
title_full Athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship
title_fullStr Athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship
title_full_unstemmed Athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship
title_short Athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship
title_sort athletes' satisfaction as mediator of transformational leadership behaviors of coaches and football players' sport commitment relationship
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