Study of the Relationship between Perceived Coaches' Leadership Behavior and Team Cohesion on University and College Rugby Athletes

• Main Authors: Hung, Ji-Hsiang, 洪吉祥
• Other Authors: 林國瑞
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/cj3gt8

碩士 === 臺北市立大學 === 體育學系碩士在職專班 === 105 === The purpose of this study was to 1. Understand the current university and college rugby athletes’ perception of coaches’ leadership behavior; 2. Understand the university and college rugby athletes’ team cohesion; 3. Compare the difference in university and college rugby athletes’ perception of coaches’ leadership behavior with different background variables; 4. Compare the difference in university and college rugby athletes’ team cohesion with different background variables; 5. Investigate the correlation between university and college rugby athletes’ perception of coaches’ leadership behavior and team cohesion. The research adopted questionnaire survey as the research method and used those athletes of university and college Sevens Rugby (open group and general group) in 2017 as the research object. 240 copies of questionnaire were sent out, 191 valid copies returned with a valid return rate of 79.6%. The statistical software package, SPSS for windows 18.0, was used to analyze the collected data, as well as applied these statistical methods, including Descriptive Statistics, One-way ANOVA, Repeated- measures One-way ANOVA, Fisher's Least Significant Difference (LSD) and Pearson Product-Moment Correlation. The research results are as follows： 1. The average score of university and college rugby athletes’ perception of coaches’ leadership behavior is 3.64, and the scores of factors are as follows orderly： “democratic behavior”, “rewarding behavior”, “social support”, “training and instruction” and “autocratic behavior”. 2. The average score of university and college rugby athletes’ team cohesion is 3.90, and the scores of factors are as follows orderly： “team adaptation”, “teamwork”, “interpersonal attraction” and “interpersonal affinity”. 3. Correlation analysis between coaches’ leadership behavior and team cohesion: (1) Correlation coefficients between university and college rugby athletes’ perception of coaches’ leadership behavior and team cohesion are .49~.67, which showed a significant positive correlation. (2) Between the entire university and college rugby athletes’ perception of coaches’ leadership behavior and team cohesion reached a significant moderately positive correlation.