Influence of perceived coaches leadership style on athletes motivation in middle and long distance runners of second division athletes clubs in addis ababa city

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to assess influence of perceived coach’s leadership style on athlete’s motivation in Addis Ababa city administration second division athletics clubs in middle and long distance runners. Cross-sectional study design was employed. The population of the study were selected from fifteen (n=15) clubs. From each club 8 athletes total 120 and 30 coaches and were purposively selected. Those clubs and athletes were selected by using proportional stratified sampling technique.The instrument of data collection used for this study wasstandard questionnaires and semistructure interview. SPSS version 23 was used for statistical analysis of the data.Descriptive statistics such as mean, and frequency were used to analyze the current existing coach’s leadership style and athlete’s motivational status. Whereas, Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to test the relationship between coaches leadership style with athlete’s motivation. Similarly, multiple regression was used to investigate the effect of coaches leadership style on the Athletes’ motivation. The results of this studyshow that perceived coaches leadership style subscales including autocratic leadership style (mean =3.57, SD, 1.35), democratic leadership style (mean = 3.90, SD =1.08) and laissez-fare (mean = 2.79, SD= 1.29). Types of athletes motivation subscales results indicate that intrinsic motivation to know (mean 4.41, SD =0.682), intrinsic motivation-to accomplish (mean = 4.33, SD= 0.782),intrinsic motivation to experience (mean = 4.28,SD=0.802), extrinsic motivation to identified (mean = 4.45, SD=0.48), extrinsic motivation to interjected (mean = 4.39, SD=0.713), extrinsic motivation to external regulation (mean 4.37, SD=0.758), amotivation (mean = 1.79, SD=0.951). The correlation result indicates that there is significant correlation between democratic leadership style andathlete motivation, (r=-0.218, p< 0.05), while there is no significant correlation between autocratic leadership style and athlete motivation (r =-0.23, p>0.05) and Laissez fair leadership style with a motivation, (r=-0.117, p>0.05). The regression output shows that coaches democratic leadership styles demonstrate athletes motivation by 40% of variance (R 2 = 0.40, F(1,541) =, 2.027, p < 0.05). It was found that coaches democratic leadership style predict athletes motivation (B=-.047, p<0.01).In general the finding of this study indicated that athletes aremotivated intrinsically and extrinsically.Democratic types of coach leadership style have significant relationship with intrinsic motivation.Autocratic coach leadership style has low significant relationship with athletes’ motivation.The study depicts that coaches’ democratic leadership style was found to be the most determinate factor in determining middle and long distance runners’ motivation and coaches are advised to use democratic leadership style to motivate athletes more.