The Correlation between the Sports Coaches’ Leadership Styles and Female Students’ Psychological Self-Efficacy at High Schools of Falavarjan County

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).