Relationship between leadership styles and stress indicators of sports leaders

  Danish Chawla,  Hariom Sharma

Sports are now not simply games rather highly competitive and considered as a performance. The present research intended to study the sports leaders for their stress experience. Twenty male sports coaches from different educational institutions in Jalandhar and Phagwara districts of Punjab state, India participated by responding the leadership style questionnaire and stress indicator questionnaire. The findings demonstrated the sports persons having low, moderate or high levels of authoritative, democratic and laissez-faire leadership styles. However, majority of the participants followed either moderate or high level of these leadership styles. Moderate democratic leaders were noticed with highest stress level (M=160.43, SD= 8.75) followed by moderate laissez-faire leaders (M=155.17, SD= 12.64) and high authoritarian leaders (M=151.25, SD= 17.96). Interestingly, sports persons using very high level of democratic style demonstrated least stress level (M= 119.67, SD= 18.58). The obtained findings confirmed leadership styles having relationship with stress and its various indicators. Democratic (r= -.539, -.479, = -.476, p<.05) and laissez-faire (r= -.594, p<.01) style of leaders had almost negative relationships with stress indicators, whereas authoritative styles leaders had positive relationships with stress, though these relationships could not reached at significant level. Physical, emotional, sleep, behavioral and personal dimensions of stress scale were examined in relation to all three types of leadership styles in the study. The findings contributed towards insight to use the leadership styles in ever increasing competitive field of sports.

Keywords- Sports leader, leadership styles, stress types

Unique Identification Number - IJEDR1703030
Page Number(s) - 201-207
Pubished in - Volume 5 | Issue 3 | July 2017
DOI (Digital Object Identifier) -    http://doi.one/10.8/ijedr.17019
Publisher - IJEDR (ISSN - 2321-9939)

  Danish Chawla,  Hariom Sharma,   "Relationship between leadership styles and stress indicators of sports leaders", International Journal of Engineering Development and Research (IJEDR), ISSN:2321-9939, Volume.5, Issue 3, pp.201-207, July 2017, Available at :http://www.ijedr.org/papers/IJEDR1703030.pdf