Relationship between coaching leadership style and young athletes’ social responsibility

• Ye Hoon Lee

  University of North Alabama

• Seunghyun Hwang

  Korea Institute of Sport Science

• Youngjun Choi

  Korea University , Korea University

We investigated the relationship between young athletes’ perception of their leaders’ coaching behavior and the athletes’ level of social responsibility. Participants were 204 high school athletes from the Midwest region in the US. Hierarchical regression analysis results showed that there was a positive relationship between the athletes’ social responsibility and the coaches’ democratic behavior, and a negative relationship between social responsibility and coaches’ autocratic behavior. These results indicate that the athletes who perceived their coaches as behaving more democratically and less autocratically had a higher level of social responsibility than the others had. Our findings signify the importance of using types of coaching behavior that enhance student athletes’ social responsibility.

1. Ye Hoon Lee, University of North Alabama
   Department of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation
2. Seunghyun Hwang, Korea Institute of Sport Science
   Department of Sport Science
3. Youngjun Choi, Korea University, Korea University
   Department of Physical Education

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