A comparison of leadership styles of successful and unsuccessful collegiate women basketball coaches

The purpose of this study was to identify and to compare leadership styles of successful and unsuccessful collegiate women basketball coaches. Subjects for the study consisted of 1981-1982 collegiate women basketball coaches from Region 2 and Region 3 of the Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW). Providing structure for the study were ten research questions addressing the success and failure of women coaches. The research questions not only produced information regarding collegiate women basketball coaches, but also made comparisons between two levels of coaches--the successful and unsuccessful coach. The following research instruments were used in this study: (1) the Leadership Ability Evaluation (LAE), (2) the Coaches' Demographic Questionnaire, and (3) the Coaches' Leadership Evaluation (CLEQ). Questionnaires were mailed to 100 women basketball coaches from the nine states of Region 2 and Region 3. Seventy-seven percent of the coaches marked and returned the questionnaires. Sixty-two percent of the questionnaires were in usable form. The coaches were placed into two groups according to their collegiate winning percentages. Coaches with percentages above .500 were termed successful coaches while those with a percentage of .500 and below were termed unsuccessful coaches. Upon completion of data collection, the data were coded and verified for processing. The Statistical Analysis System (SAS) was used to facilitate analysis. The number of percentage of responses were tabulated from the two groups according to each of the four leadership styles measured by the LAE and the three dimensions measured by the CLEQ. The data from the LAE were compared to national norms contained in the test manual. Pearson Product Moment correlation coefficients were also computed between winning percentages and LAE scores. The t—test for a difference between two independent samples was used for LAE and CLEQ mean scores. Frequency and percentages were tabulated for the demographic data. On the basis of these analyses, the following conclusions were drawn: 1. successful and unsuccessful women collegiate coaches employ basically the same leadership styles. 2. the percentages of successful coaches were similar to the percentages of unsuccessful coaches in each leadership style. 3. the successful and unsuccessful coaches possessed neither high nor low degrees of leadership qualities when compared to national norms. 4. personal demographic data for successful and unsuccessful coaches were not conclusive in indicating leadership style or successful coaching.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ed. D.

Level thesis:degree_level

doctoral

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Curriculum and Instruction

Department dc:contributor.department

Curriculum and Instruction

Grantor dc:publisher

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

Year dc:date.issued

1982

Author dc:creator

• Callaway, Deborah Johnson

Statement dc:rights

• In Copyright

Licence dc:rights.uri

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language.iso

en_US

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53853

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/53853