2016, Vol. 3, Issue 2, Part F
An exploratory study of team captains leadership role during sports competition of universities students-Athletes in Ghana
Author(s): Omoregie Philip Osamende
Abstract:The study explore student team captain’s leadership experiences during sports competition. 37 Universities team captains (23 males & 14 females) were purposively sampled from five sports (soccer, athletics, badminton, tennis & table-tennis). Leadership Practices Inventory of 30 items, with six items loading practice of 5-points Likert-scale rarely (1) – frequently (5) yielded a reliability (α = 0.74). Research question and two hypotheses were tested. Mean, standard deviation and Analysis of Variance used at .05 significant level. Results shows that enable others to act with and encourage the heart mean were higher than other practices. Findings reported a significantly higher use of two out of the five leadership practices: Inspire a shared vision F (1, 35) = 7.499,
p< 05 and challenge the process F (1, 35) = 4.755,
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Omoregie Philip Osamende. An exploratory study of team captains leadership role during sports competition of universities students-Athletes in Ghana. Int J Phys Educ Sports Health 2016;3(2):291-295.
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