Investigation of preferred leadership behaviors in sport and empathic tendency with regards to different variables

Year 2016, Volume: 18 Issue: 2, 34 - 39, 31.08.2016

Gaye Erkmen Mehibe Akandere

Abstract

This study was conducted in
order to explore the emphatic tendencies of students receiving education at the
School of Physical Education and Sport as well as the leadership behaviors they
prefer with regard to different variables. The sampling of the study involved a
total of 361 students with 138 female and 223 male students. Empathic
tendencies Scale (ESS) preferred leadership behavior form of Leadership for Sport
Scale were used for data collection. In the analysis of data, depending on the
variables, independent samples t-test, one-way variance analysis and Pearson
product-moment correlation coefficient method was utilized. In order to
determine the source of differentiation in findings which were significant
differences as ANOVA was conducted. In consequence of the analyses, whereas no
difference was found among empathic tendency scores with regard to gender
variable, significant difference was found in sub-dimensions of preferred
leadership behaviors; social support, democratic behavior, autocrative
behavior. With regard to sport type variable, among the empathic tendency
scores a statistically significant difference was observed in democratic
behavior sub-dimension. As a result of the analysis carried out in an effort to
determine the correlation between empathic tendency and preferred leadership
behavior, positive and significant relationships were observed between social
support, positive feedback and training and instruction sub-dimensions and
empathic tendencies. Findings indicated that individuals who were captain have
higher empathic tendency scores than those who were not.

Keywords

Empathic tendency, preferred leadership behaviors, sport

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