| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立屏東教育大學 === 體育學系碩士班 === 102 === The study is to explore the relationship between coaches’ leadership and athletes’ satisfaction. It was dealt with quantitatively and qualitatively. The participants investigated were 207 players from PingTung County elementary school tchoukball teams, who were 108 males and 99 females. The researcher adopted questionnaires as the research method, and takes as the research scales of coaches’ leadership and players’ satisfaction of PingTung County elementary school tchoukball teams. The data were based on descriptive analysis, independent-samples t-test, one-way ANOVA, Scheffe’s post-ho tests, Pearson’s product-moment correlations, and Stepwise multiple regression analysis, exploring how the different backgrounds as variables influenced coaches’ leadership and players’ satisfaction, and working on the relationship between team coachs’ leadership and players’ satisfaction.
In terms of qualitative research, the study went through semi structured interviews of 10 players and 2 coaches, with the interview outline of the coaches’ leadership that influenced the satisfaction of the players on PingTung County elementary school tchoukball teams.
The conclusions of the study were as follows:
I. The differences of coaches’ leadership that the players from different backgrounds on PingTung County elementary school tchoukball teams perceived.
A. The sexual difference of the players on elementary school tchoukball teams did not cause different perception of coaches’ leadership.
B. The coach’s leardership in terms of “training and guidance,” “caring behavior”, “awards”,and“democracy”caused significant differences in grades.
C. The authority of a coach did not cauce different perception coaches’ leadership in grades.
D. The coach’s leadership in terms of “awards” as well as “training and guidance” caused significant differences in years a player stayed on the tearm.
E. The differences of ‘players’ best record of a team, “”practice time,” and “the frequency of weekly training” cauced different perception of coaches’ leadership.
II. The differences of the satisfaction of the players from different backgrounds on PingTung County elementary school tchoukball team:
A. Players’ satisfaction in term of gender, different grades, different years on the team,the best record of a team, and the frequency of weekly training did not cause any significant differences in coaches’ leadership as a whole, the athletic performance, and a team’s overall performance.
B. The players who practice less than one hour per time caused greatly in satisfaction perception.
III. A player’s satisfaction were significantly and positively related to a coach’s leadership in terms of his or her “training and guidance,” caring behavior,” “awards,” and “democracy.”
IV. The coach overall leadership could be predicted, if with “awards” as well as “caring behavior.” The more “training and guidance ,” the more satisfaction the players express in “players’ performance.”
“Caring behavior,” “democracy,” and “training and guidance” were great predictions on the satisfaction in “ team’s overall performance.”
Keywords: tchoukball team, coaches’ leadership, players’ satisfaction, qualitative study.
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