Poonguzhali Chelladurai

• SA Engineering College

196 varsity college athletes completed a leadership scale for sports that assessed 5 preferred and perceived leadership behaviors: training and instruction, democratic behavior, autocratic behavior, social support, and positive feedback. Four facets of satisfaction were measured: individual performance, team performance, leadership, and overall inv...

Determined if preferences of athletes for training and instruction (task-oriented) behavior and social support (relationship-oriented) behavior would vary with athletic maturity (operationalized in terms of level of competition). Basketball players from high school midget ( n = 67), junior ( n = 63), and senior ( n = 63) divisions and a university...

Item analyses of the responses of 54 high school wrestlers and 193 high school basketball players to the Leadership Scale for Sports support the instrument's applicability in high school sports. The scale taps highly similar response dimensions in varsity and high school athletes.

Attempted to identify the factors correlated with the athlete's perception of cohesiveness in individual and team sports. The 5 measures of cohesion used were factor analyzed, and 2 factors were identified: Individual-to-Group-Cohesion (composed of sense of belonging, value of membership, and enjoyment) and Group-as-a-Unit-Cohesion (composed of tea...

The factors influencing the effects that cohesiveness has upon performance success in athletic situations were examined. Two principal issues were discussed: the nature of the sport task (i.e., inherent differences among various sports in terms of task demands influence the type of coordinative activity required of group mem bers and this, in turn,...

Three different samples (total N = 485) participated in the development and refinement of the Leadership Scale for Sports (LSS). A five-factor solution with 40 items describing the most salient dimensions of coaching behavior was selected as the most meaningful. These factors were named Training and Instruction, Democratic Behavior, Autocratic Beha...

The proposition that an athlete's personality and the attributes of the task tend to be congruent was the focus of the study. One hundred and fifty athletes of a Canadian University (Males=87; Females-63) voluntarily participated in the study. Sports were classified on the basis of task dependence (independent versus interdependent), and task varia...

A framework from which to examine the interpersonal behavior of coach and athlete is presented. Compatibility may be viewed as the degree of congruence between the situational demands and the actual behavior of the coach and athlete and the degree to which they reciprocally meet their needs to control others or be controlled. Previous research effo...

The present study examined the interactive effects of participation motivation (task, self, and interaction) expressed in early season and successful performance (n = 183) experienced throughout the collegiate hockey season upon satisfaction expressed post-season with individual and team performance. The experimental design consisted of a 2 × 2 fac...

A new agility task incorporating the variations in the stimulus field and the instrumentation for measurement of performance is described. Reliability coefficients are very high (.838 to .973) The stimulus variations that emanate from the spatial and temporal uncertainties progressively increase the level of task difficulty. The described apparatus...