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The Impact of Coach Leadership Behavior on Secondary School Volleyball Players' Social-Emotional Competence - The Mediating Role of Team Cohesion

Author(s)

Yuan Xinyi1, Yang Hongliang2,*

Affiliation(s)

1School of Physical Education, Wuhan Sports University, Wuhan, Hubei, China 2School of Physical Education, Huanggang Normal University, Huanggang, Hubei, China *Corresponding author

Abstract

Using the methods of literature review, questionnaire survey, and mathematical statistics, this study takes secondary school volleyball players as the research object to explore the relationship between coach leadership behavior and social-emotional competence, and to test the mediating role of team cohesion between them. The results show that: coach leadership behavior is significantly positively correlated with both social-emotional competence and team cohesion, among which democratic leadership behavior has a particularly obvious promoting effect on social-emotional competence; there is also a significant positive correlation between team cohesion and social-emotional competence. Mediation effect analysis shows that team cohesion plays a complete mediating role between coach leadership behavior and social-emotional competence, that is, coach leadership behavior mainly enhances athletes' social-emotional competence indirectly by improving team cohesion. Based on this, it is suggested that coaches should attach importance to the application of democratic leadership in training and strive to cultivate team cohesion to promote the comprehensive improvement of athletes' social-emotional competence.

Keywords

Coach Leadership Behavior; Team Cohesion; Social-Emotional Competence; Mediating Role

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