European Journal of Zoological Research
Abstract
Author(s): Hossein Hassan Zadeh, Hossein Sepasi and Parivash Nourbakhsh
The purpose of this study was to investigate coaching behavior and leadership in sport motivation of male athletes
in sport clubs. The research method was descriptive and the research type was correlative. A total of 130 athletes in
sport clubs randomly selected as a sample of this study. Three questionnaires were used to collect the data.
Criterion variable in this study was sport motivation and predictor variables were coach leadership and behavior
styles. The construct validity and Cronbach's alpha coefficient were used for testing the questionnaires validity and
reliability. Both coefficients obtained were significant (P<0.05). The results of regression analysis of data showed
that both leadership and behavior styles of the coach could be used to predict sport motivation of the athletes.
Further analyses of data revealed that encouragement and democratic styles, two subscales of the intended
instruments, were among those predictors variables that the coach can be used to predict sport motivation of the
athletes.
