PSYCH 124S Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Team Sport, Motivation, Positive Feedback
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Coaches high in training and instruction, democratic behavior, social support, and positive feedback and low in autocratic behaviors have teams with greater cohesion. Exercise leaders exhibiting more task-related behaviors and providing task-specific reinforcement were associated with more cohesive exercise groups. Losing teams need more social support from their leaders to sustain motivation. Coach athlete compatibility in decision style, generous social support of the coach, rewarding, and democratic decisions are generally associated with higher satisfaction of athletes. Team sport athletes find positive coaching behaviors even more important than individual sport athletes do. Autocratic (controlling) coaching styles are associated with lower levels of intrinsic motivation and perceived competence. Coaching style affects intrinsic motivation and competence and influences. Four outcomes of athlete leadership development through sport athletes" motivation and persistence. Effective leaders have integrity, flexibility, loyalty, confidence, accountability, candor, preparedness, resourcefulness, self-discipline, and patience.