The Relationship on University Basketball Coach’s Emotional Intelligence, Leadership Behavior, Leadership Effectiveness and Athletic Performance

摘要

The purpose of this study is to explore the relationship between emotional intelligence and leadership behavior, leadership effectiveness and athletic performance of college basketball coaches. This study used a paired questionnaire to distinguish subjects to be coaches and players,purposive sample pairs questionnaires, researchers selected 56 coaches and 678 players they led to conduct a questionnaire survey. After the questionnaire collected, 54 valid questionnaires were obtained from coaches; 527 valid questionnaires from players, and the effective recovery rateswere 96% and 77%. The statistical method used Partial Least Squares (PLS) to perform the structural equation model (SEM) analysis. This study found that emotional intelligence of coach has a direct positive impact on leadership behavior and athletic performance, and leadership effectivenessneeds to be indirectly influenced by leadership behavior; leadership behavior has indirect impact on athletic performance through leadership effectiveness; satisfaction and cohesion in leadership effectiveness have a direct positive impact on athletic performance. A basketball coach with goodemotional intelligence can respond to various emotional changes during training and competition, and adjust his leadership behavior in a timely manner to improve the cohesiveness and satisfaction of the players and achieve the best athletic performance.