Athlete Leadership as a Shared Process: Using a Social-Network Approach to Examine Athlete Leadership in Competitive Female Youth Soccer Teams

Duguay, Ashley M.; Loughead, Todd M.; Cook, J.P.

doi:10.1123/tsp.2018-0019

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“…Social network analysis is a methodological tool that examines the "relationships among social entities, and on the patterns and implications of these relationships" (Wasserman and Faust, 1994, 3). For instance, in order to visually and quantitatively examine the distribution of athlete leadership, Duguay et al (2019b) sampled four competitive youth teams. Within each team, every player was asked to rate the extent that they looked for leadership to each of their teammates.…”

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

2020

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Athlete leadership researchers have typically investigated three dimensions of athlete leadership behaviors, which include the meta-categories of task-, social-, and externaloriented 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.

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2020

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“…Additionally, as previously stated, getting other stakeholder views (e.g., coaches, teammates) of the course participant’s leadership would be useful. Since athlete leadership is a shared practice ( Duguay et al, 2019 ) and might be best viewed through the lens of a social identity approach to leadership ( Worley et al, 2020 ), there might be a need to ensure that researchers examine not just the individual development that may occur from leadership courses, but the critical ways in which these courses can also serve as a starter to shared conversation and continued development in the networks of relationships that exist on a team.…”

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Evaluation of the NFHS Online Captains Leadership Course: Student Athletes’ Views of Effectiveness

Walker

Gould

2021

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Sport is viewed as an arena for positive life skill development, including leadership development. In 2015, the NFHS launched an online Captain’s Leadership Training Course. The main purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of the course in improving leadership knowledge and ability. An electronic survey was sent to a sample of athletes (n = 202, 129 female), ages 13–19 (M = 17.01, SD = 0.10) in eight United States states who had completed the NFHS course within the last 3–18 months. Most athletes (92.6%) completed the course based upon their coach’s recommendation. The course was viewed to be moderately to very useful (M = 2.49, SD = 1.00) in helping them in preparing to be a team captain. Participants believed the course to be very to extremely effective in building their knowledge on motivation (M = 1.96, SD = 0.89), communication (M = 1.90, SD = 0.80), decision making (M = 2.03, SD = 0.91), peer modeling (M = 1.91, SD = 0.86), team cohesion (M = 1.96, SD = 0.88) and problem solving strategies (M = 2.00, SD = 0.85). Canonical correlation analyses showed that athletes who felt they were more reflective tended to rate the effectiveness of the course lower than their peers. Additionally, analyses did not show any clear demographic characteristics that distinguished between perceptions of the effectiveness of the course, showing the value found in the course was high with all types of scholastic athletes. Athletes felt the course could be improved most in the area of learning how to manage conflict with their peers and coaches. Future research in scholastic leadership should seek to understand the impact of the course prospectively across a high school sport season.

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“…Finally, the scores obtained in other subscales, such as team cohesion and mental ability, are higher in professional players, although these differences are not significant. It is possible that female professional players show a greater tendency to work in groups and strengthen the team by dedicating more hours and spending more time together in an effort to achieve a common goal [45,46]. This tendency is very important from the point of view of sports cohesion and cooperation, and its importance in performance and perceived subjective well-being is high [47,48].…”

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Female Soccer Players’ Psychological Profile: Differences between Professional and Amateur Players

Esteban

Olmedilla

Méndez

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The psychological variables that affect competitive performance are called the psychological profile of athletes. In recent years, the interest in female soccer players and the psychological characteristics that affect their performance has increased. The aim of the present study is to analyze the psychological characteristics of female professional soccer players and female amateur soccer players, as well as to determine the differences in the psychological profile of both groups. The participants were 134 federated female soccer players, with an average age of 18.28 years (SD = 4.05). To assess the psychological profile, the questionnaire on Psychological Characteristics related to Sports Performance (CPRD) by Gimeno, Buceta, and Pérez-Llantada (2001) was used. The results showed that female professional players presented higher values for motivation, while the female amateur players presented higher values for stress control and the influence of performance evaluation. These results can have a great impact on coaches’ work, since they can help them to establish tasks and training methods consistent with the characteristics of their players.

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Athlete Leadership as a Shared Process: Using a Social-Network Approach to Examine Athlete Leadership in Competitive Female Youth Soccer Teams

Cited by 22 publications

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

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

Evaluation of the NFHS Online Captains Leadership Course: Student Athletes’ Views of Effectiveness

Female Soccer Players’ Psychological Profile: Differences between Professional and Amateur Players

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