The Relationship between Preferred Leadership Style and Motivation among Ethiopia Female Volleyball Primer League Players

Abstract

Background coaches’ leadership styles have been repeatedly studied to link a particular leadership behavior with a relevant variable including motivation. Few studies have examined coach leadership behaviors' contribution to the team’s function and performance

Objectives. This study aims to investigate the preferred coaches’ leadership style as well as the relationship between leadership style and athlete motivation and to examine predictive factors of athletes’ motivation. 

Methods Participants included 46 Premier League female volleyball players aged 15–38 years. LSS and (SMS-6) questionnaires were used to assess leadership styles and motivation respectively. Descriptive statistics, person correlation,, and regression analysis were computed in the data.

Result in the findings of this study showed that training and instruction (M = 4.10, SD = 0.73) and democratic (M = 3.96, SD = 0.43) styles were the most valued leadership styles. Besides leadership style had a positive relationship with players’ motivation Intrinsic motivation significantly correlated with training and instruction, social support, and positive feedback with p-values .000<0.05, .002<0.05, and .000<0.05 respectively, and although motivation significantly correlated with autocratic behavior and social support with p-value 0.027 and 0.012 which is less than 0.05.  Moreover autocratic (β =- 0.509,), and democratic (β = -0.245,) leadership styles are significant predictors of players’ motivation. Thus, the dimensions of coach leadership style accounted for 40.1 % of the adjusted R² value,

Conclusion. The findings suggest that to enhance players’ motivation coaches give more emphasis on the styles that are preferred by premier league players and omit the autocratic style that increases players’ a motivation.

Keywords: Training and instruction, democratic, intrinsic motivation, a motivation, Autocratic, positive feedback