This research aims to provide results which may be practically employed during the training of athletes and to attempt a theoretical systematization of leadership behavioral types. This research empirically examined the relationships between exercise ...
This research aims to provide results which may be practically employed during the training of athletes and to attempt a theoretical systematization of leadership behavioral types. This research empirically examined the relationships between exercise satisfaction, team cohesion and commitment to exercise. 528 athletes from high schools, universities and amateur bowling teams were the test subjects, and they were given questionnaires to answer during their participation in the 2012 Korea Bowling Congressional National Championship Tournament. The questionnaires were designed to examine relations amongst leadership behavioral type, exercise satisfaction, team cohesion, and commitment to exercise by applying nonreplacement cluster sampling. The collected data was evaluated by the program, SPSS. This implements independent-sample t-test and one-way Analysis of Variance(ANOVA). A Scheffe test was used for the post-hoc analysis.To analyze the impat of leadership behavioral type on exercise satisfaction, team cohesion and commitment to exercise, a path analysis was used, followed by parametric comparison for the comparison of path parameters according to sex and status. The main research results are as follows.
First, regarding leadership behavioral type, when explanatory coaching, questioning coaching, positive feedback, and management coaching were used more with the athletes, they demonstrated higher exercise satisfaction, team cohesion, and commitment to exercise. By contrast, athletes from universities and amateur teams, with being given increased negative feedback, reduced personal social-cohesion.
Second, high school athletes showed higher leadership behavioral type, satisfaction with leadership from a coach, and commitment to exercise than athletes from universities and amateur teams. Also, with regards to an athletic career, athletes with less than three years of experience responded better to explanatory coaching, questioning coaching, satisfaction with leadership from a coach, and personal social-cohesion than athletes with the experience of more than seven years.
Third, male athletes showed higher leadership behavioral type, team cohesion and commitment of exercise than female athletes. Furthermore, male athletes shows higher behavioral commitment, once higher personal task cohesion was given to them. Female athletes showed lower satisfaction when negative feedback was given by their coaches than male athletes.