The Relationship Between Motivation and Leadership Style Among PKNS Football Academy Players

• Published in: Lecture Notes in Bioengineering
• Main Author: Syed Ahmad S.H.; Parnabas V.
• Format: Book chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2020
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85089602729&doi=10.1007%2f978-981-15-3270-2_48&partnerID=40&md5=4ae8510a87c61bc92344aea3a2a8367a

In the past study, there was limited information on the relationship between leadership style and motivational factor among athletes. The purpose of this study is to determine this relationship towards sports performance. The subjects of this study are the athletes from the PKNS Football Academy. A total of 81 athletes from the football club had participated in the study and 81 questionnaires were distributed to each of them. Each participant must complete two types of questionnaires that represent the coaching behaviour and motivational factor. In addition, the questionnaire for leadership style is the Revised Leadership Scale for Sport (RLSS) to determine the coaching behaviour that represents five variables, which are autocratic, democratic, social support, positive feedback, and training and instruction. On the other hand, the second questionnaire that is intended for motivational factor is the Revised Sport Motivation Scale (SMS-II) to examine the types of motivation, which are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. For data analysis, the descriptive statistics (frequency and percentage statistics) and inferential statistics both utilise Pearson’s correlation test. The result of this study indicates that for leadership style, most of the players preferred to have a democratic leadership compared to other types of leadership. For motivational factor, players are likely to have an intrinsic motivation in order to play sport because of eagerness and willingness to play, compared to having an extrinsic motivation that refers to a behaviour driven by external rewards. The overall correlation was low and negative relationship between both variables (r = −.284; p = 0.01). As a conclusion, the coaching leadership style and types of motivation are some of the factors that can influence the sport performance. © 2020, Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.