A Study on Coaching Leadership and Team Cohesion of a Junior High School Basketball Team in Hualien

• Main Authors: HSIEH HUNG YUEH, 謝宏岳
• Other Authors: Ching-Dar Lin
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/87889709824737688312

碩士 === 慈濟大學 === 教育研究所 === 101 === The purposes of this study are threefold: 1 to analyze the differences of coaching leadership behavior as perceived by basketball players with different demographic variables; 2. to analyze the differences of team cohesion as perceived by basketball players with different demographic variables; 3. to investigate how the coaching leadership behavior can predict the team cohesion as perceived by the basketball players. Fourteen basketball teams of Hualian County joining the 101 School Year Junior High School Basketball League are recruited as the research participants. Two hundred and nine valid surveys are collected and statistically analyzed by t-test, one-way ANOVA, one-way MANOVA, and stepwise multiple regression. The results indicated that there are different coaching leadership behavior and team cohesion as perceived by basketball players with different demographic variables, and that the coaching leadership behavior is high predictive of the team cohesion. As for coaching leadership behavior, female players perceived more instructional and training behavior, praising behavior, social support behavior, and communicative behavior than the male counterparts. The 7th graders perceived more instructional and training behavior, social support behavior, and more managing behavior than the 9th graders. Those who have been trained less than 1 year perceived more instructional and training behavior than those who have been trained for 2 to 3 years. There are different coaching leadership III behavior as perceived by those players with different weekly training amount . Last, the top 3 teams who won the national competition perceived more coaching leadership behavior than those top 3 teams who won the local county competition. As for team cohesion, female players perceived more teamwork, interpersonal affiliation, and team adaptation than the male ones. The 9th graders perceived more teamwork and interpersonal affiliation than the 7th graders. There are different team cohesion as perceived by those players with different weekly training amount. Lastly, recommendations for school administration, basketball coaching, and following research are proposed based on the literature review and the research findings of this study.