The Moderating Effect of Athletes’ Personal Values on the Relationship between Coaches’ Leadership Behaviors and the Personal and Social Skills of Young Basketball Players

Juan Facundo Corti, María Julia Raimundi, Ignacio Celsi, Octavio Alvarez and Isabel Castillo ()
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Juan Facundo Corti: Research Institute, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1052AAA, Argentina
María Julia Raimundi: National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET), Buenos Aires C1425FQB, Argentina
Ignacio Celsi: Research Institute, Faculty of Psychology, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires C1052AAA, Argentina
Octavio Alvarez: Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain
Isabel Castillo: Department of Social Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Speech Therapy, University of Valencia, 46010 Valencia, Spain

Sustainability, 2023, vol. 15, issue 5, 1-14

Abstract: Transformational coaching has been shown to increase the personal and social skills of adolescent athletes. Nevertheless, the latter’s dispositional characteristics, such us personal values, could have a moderating effect on this relationship. The main objective of this work was to examine perceptions of coaches’ transformational behaviors and the modulation of athletes’ personal values in their relationship with personal and social skills development. Adolescents ( n = 309) of both genders (81.9% male) aged 13–19 years ( M = 16.10; SD = 1.70) from 16 different basketball clubs participated in the study. All participants completed a socio-demographic questionnaire, the Transformational Coaching Questionnaire, the Portrait Values Questionnaire—Revised, and the Youth Experiences Survey for Sport. Results showed that, controlling for age and gender, transformational behaviors that highlight individual differences within the team, especially through fostering autonomy and creative thinking (i.e., intellectual stimulation), create contexts in which their athletes can develop personal and social skills to their fullest. However, in players with high self-transcendence and low self-enhancement, the increase in intellectual stimulation was not associated with higher personal and social skills, but social focus transformational behaviors (i.e., idealized influence and inspirational motivation) were. This study contributes to the field of positive adolescent development by showing evidence of both the individual and the social focus of transformational leadership behaviors to maximize personal and social skills, depending on which values their athletes consider important.

Keywords: transformational leadership; values; youth; positive development; life skills; basketball (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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