TITLE:
Verbal Aggressiveness and Leadership Style of Sports Instructors and Their Relationship with Athletes’ Intrisic Motivation
AUTHORS:
Alexandra Bekiari
KEYWORDS:
Athletes; Intrinsic Motivation; Coaches; Verbal Aggressiveness; Leadership Style
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.5 No.2,
February
13,
2014
ABSTRACT:
The purpose of the study was to examine intrinsic
motivation of athletes and its relation with instructors’ verbal aggressiveness
and leadership style. The sample of the study consisted of 168 athletes (95
boys and 73 girls), 15 - 19 years old (M = 16.5,
SD = 0.5), participating in
different individual and team sports (basketball, volleyball, football, long
jump, pole vault, 200 m). Every participant completed three questionnaires,
the Verbal Aggressiveness Questionnaire, the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory,
and the Leadership Scale for Sports. The results revealed differences existing
among variables of the instruments in terms of sex and type of sport
(individual or team sport and contact or non contact sport). Pearson correlation
revealed a significant positive relationship of coaches’ verbal aggressiveness
with anxiety, autocratic style, and a negative significant relationship
concerning coaches’ verbal aggression with enjoyment, ability, effort, and
democratic style. Findings and implications for instructors’ type of
communication were discussed and future research suggestions were included.