Investigating the relationships among athlete leadership behaviours, perceptions of athlete leader fairness, and cohesion

作者：Katherine E. Hirsch, T. Loughead · 发表于：International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology · 年份：2024 · DOI：10.1080/1612197x.2024.2434109 · 被引用次数：1

ABSTRACT The purpose of the study was to examine athlete leader fairness in relation to athlete leadership behaviours and cohesion. Participants included 363 intercollegiate team sport athletes from Canada and the United States. Participants completed the Leadership Scale for Sports (Chelladurai & Saleh [1980]. Dimensions of leader behavior in sports: Development of a leadership scale. Journal of Sport Psychology, 2(1), 34–45. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsp.2.1.34) to assess athlete leadership, Group Environment Questionnaire (Eys, Carron, et al., [2007]. Item wording and internal consistency of a measure of cohesion: The Group Environment Questionnaire. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 29(3), 395–402. https://doi.org/10.1123/jsep.29.3.395) to measure cohesion, and a leader fairness inventory (Colquitt [2001]. On the dimensionality of organizational justice: A construct validation of a measure. Journal of Applied Psychology, 86(3), 386–400. https://doi.org/10.1037/0021-9010.86.3.386). Structural equation modelling was used to assess athlete leader fairness as a mediator in the relationship between athlete leadership behaviours and cohesion. Positive relationships were found between athlete leadership behaviours of training and instruction, social support, and positive feedback with dimensions of athlete leader fairness, whereas autocratic behaviour was found to have a negative relationship with athlete leader fairness. Procedural fairness was positively related to all d...