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| Published: March 25, 2016
The Correlation between the Sports Coaches’ Leadership Styles and Female Students’ Psychological Self-Efficacy at High Schools of Falavarjan County
Master in Sport Psychology, Department of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran. Google Scholar More about the auther
PhD in Psychology, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Isfahan, Isfahan, Iran Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.175/20160302
DOI: 10.25215/0302.175
ABSTRACT
This study aims at investigating the correlation between the sports coaches’ leadership styles and female students’ psychological self-efficacy at high schools of Falavarjan County. This research has descriptive-correlative method and the population of this research consists of all female sports coaches and female students at high schools of Falavarjan County in 2014.The sample size of female students is equal to 324.The measurement tools include the Morgen teacher leadership style questionnaire (2001) and Shrir General self- Efficacy Scale (GSES) (1982).The statistical correlation and regression analysis methods are utilized for data analysis. It indicates that there is a significant positive correlation between sports coaches’ leadership styles and the female students’ psychological self-efficacy at high schools of Falavarjan County. The research results indicate that there is a significant correlation between the task-oriented leadership styles in sports coaches and the sense of general and social self-efficacy in female students at high schools of Falavarjan County (p≤0.05) as well as a significant correlation between the human-oriented leadership styles in sports coaches and the sense of general and social self-efficacy in female students at high schools of Falavarjan County (p≤0.05).
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© 2016 I Z Kobra, K Bagher
Received: February 12, 2016; Revision Received: February 24, 2016; Accepted: March 25, 2016
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.175/20160302
10.25215/0302.175
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Published in Volume 03, Issue 2, January-March, 2016