The Effect of Authentic Leadership Style on the Development Motivation of Female Volleyball Players

Abstract

Introduction: The behavioral pattern of the leader (coach) activates psychological capacities and positive moral conditions to increase the progress of himself and his followers, and motivation in humans is a hidden power that leads athletes to unique performance and gives direction and intensity to their behavior.

Purpose: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effect of authentic leadership style on the motivation of female volleyball players in Urmia.

Method: The research design was descriptive, survey, correlational, field and non-experimental in terms of relationships. The statistical population of semi-skilled volleyball players born in 2005 to 2007 in Shahid Beheshti Volleyball House and Stadium (University) in the girls section of Urmia city is 200 people. Statistical sample, 135 people were selected by stratified random sampling method. Data using questionnaires, authentic leadership style (Avolio, Gardner and Valium, 2006) and Sports orientation or sports development motivation (Gill and Dieter, 1988), collected with software (SPSS V. 28) were analyzed.

Results: Results: The results showed between authentic leadership style and its components (self-awareness, balanced processing, ethics and relational transparency) with sports orientation or motivation for progress and its components (Competitiveness, victory orientation and goal orientation) there is a positive and significant relationship. Self-awareness, balanced processing, ethics and relational transparency cause positive and meaningful explanation and prediction competitiveness (54.1 percent), triumphalism (56.1 percent) and Goal-oriented (50.2 percent) they became.

Discussion and conclusion: According to the results, the volleyball officials should develop and strengthen the motivation to progress in the young female volleyball players of Urmia city by choosing a skilled coach and with the help of an original leadership style.

Keywords: authentic leadership style, sports orientation, sports development motivation, female volleyball players, Urmia city.