Coaches leadership styles as preferred by different gender among Sukma Johor athletes / Mohamad Amir Aizat Bahruddin

Coaches' leadership style and coaching behavior is the style used by the coach as
a leader for the team and the organization. There are various of style that can be used by
the leader as long as it is suit with the team and in which the team can achieve high
performance in the sports. The study was conducted on two group samples which is
male (N =75) and female (N =75) athletes which total (N =150) are participated in
SUKMA event. Purposes of this study were to identify the coaches' leadership style as
preferred by different gender among SUKMA Johor athletes. To collect data from
subjects, the Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS) were used to examined style of coaching
leadership that is preferred. Questionnaire distributed to athletes that are including a five
factor solution with 40 items describing the most preferred dimension of coaching
leadership was selected as the most meaningful These factors were named Training and
Instruction, Democratic Behavior, Autocratic Behavior, Social Support, and Positive
Feedback. Male athletes more preferred the training and instruction coaching behavior
which mean score 4.48±O.12 and female are more preferred autocratic behavior which
mean score 4.68±1.24.