doi no.: 05.2017-58949138  DOI Link :: http://doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2017-58949138/

Dr. Harendra Singh¹

Affiliations:

¹ Lecturer Vijay Singh Pathrik Govt. PG College, Kairana, Shamli (U.P.)-Pin  Code-247774.

E-mail-harendersingh096@gmail.com

ABSTRACT

The purpose of the study was to assess and investigate the preferred leadership behaviour of Indian female volleyball players. For this purpose,  Two hundred and thirty four (Females= 234)) National  level Volleyball players representing their respective state teams  in Senior National  Volleyball Competition (W) and who volunteered to participate in this study, were selected to serve as subjects for this study Leadership Scale for Sports developed by P. Chelladurai (1994) was selected as a criterion tool to measure preferences  on five dimensions of preferred leadership behaviour of national level male and female volleyball players. To assess the preferred  leader  behaviour of National  level female Volleyball players, means, standard deviations and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) was computed were computed. Wherever, the F-ratio was found significant. The statistical analysis of collected data revealed that the  national  level  female  volleyball players   exhibited  different preferences on five dimensions of leader behaviour. National level  female volleyball players preferred in greater amount of training and instruction followed by positive feedback, social support, democratic behaviour  and  autocratic   behaviour from their coaches.

Keywords: Preferences, National level, Gymnasts, Leadership, Behaviour, Females.

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