The Testing of a Four-Dimensional Model of Athlete Leadership and Its Relation to Leadership Effectiveness

Christopher Maechel, Todd M. Loughead, Jürgen Beckmann

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Abstract

Athlete leadership researchers have typically investigated three dimensions of athlete leadership behaviors, which include the meta-categories of task-, social-, and external-oriented leadership. More recently, motivational leadership was added as a fourth dimension. Researchers in organizational leadership have advanced another dimension, referred to as change-oriented leadership (Yukl, 2012). Therefore, in the present study, we tested a four-dimensional model that includes the dimensions of task-, social-, external-, and change-oriented leadership. Two samples of 161 athletes and 69 coaches rated every player on their team on the four-dimensional model and on perceived athlete leadership effectiveness. A multilevel regression analysis showed that all four dimensions of athlete leadership significantly predicted perceived athlete leadership effectiveness for players and three dimensions (i.e., social-, task-, and change-oriented leadership) for coaches. These results support the importance of change-oriented leadership in relation to athlete leadership.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1361
JournalFrontiers in Psychology
Volume11
DOIs
StatePublished - 3 Jul 2020

Keywords

  • athlete leadership
  • change-oriented leadership
  • functional leadership theory
  • leadership effectiveness
  • shared leadership

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