Comparing self-leadership and self-efficacy between male and female UiTM athletes / Farah Amanina Zulkipli

The main purpose of this study was to compare the self-efficacy between male and female of UiTM athletes, to differentiate self-leadership skills between male and female of UiTM athletes and lastly to identify the influence of categories of sports in self¬ leadership skills on UiTM athletes. A demographic form, Revised Self-Leadership Questionnaire (RSLQ) and Generelized Self-Efficacy (GSE) were employed in the current study. Descriptive statistics indicated the significant mean scores of demographic profile based on genders (x=l.57) between male (n=181), female (n=243) and categories of sports (x=1 .69). Results of Independant T-test indicated that there were no significant different between genders on self-efficacy, t (424), p > 0.05. In contrary, result on the comparison of self-leadership between genders showed significant different where female (x = 3.89) have been identified to have higher self¬ leadership than male (x = 3.74), t (424), p < 0.05. Yet, the result on the influence of self-leadership on categories of sports stated that there is no significant difference between individual (x = 3.825) and team (x = 3.826) categories. Since, these finding exhibited that genders do have differences in self-leadership skills and are indirectly related to self-efficacy that can enhance performance of athletes. It suggests that female athlete needs differences in self-efficacy while male needs to have changes in self-leadership skills.