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<p>The present study aimed to analyze the relationship of transformational coach leadership with team identification and group cohesion, and its subsequent positive outcomes. Also, to examine the role of team identification and group cohesion in explaining the impact of the coach’s transformational leadership on perceived team performance and intention to return. Adopting a longitudinal design, a total of 260 male soccer players aged between 13 and 18&#xa0;years (<i>M</i> = 15.84, <i>SD</i> = 1.30) participated in the study, completing measures at the middle and end of the season (two months apart). The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) showed that: (1) transformational leadership was positively related to team identification and task cohesion; (2) team identification was positively associated to social and task cohesion, and intention to return; (3) only task cohesion showed a significant and positive relationship with intention to return and perceived team performance; (4) team identification positively mediated the relationship between transformational coach leadership and social and task cohesion, and intention to return; and (5) only task cohesion acted as a positive mediator between the transformational coach leadership and intention to return, and perceived team performance. Therefore, results suggest that transformational coach leadership is an important variable to consider with youth players in order to achieve individual and team positive consequences in the team sports context.</p>

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What are the individual and collective consequences of transformational leadership coaching? A longitudinal structural equation model analysis with youth footballers

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    2025年1月27日

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  • Iván Ramírez-Bravo,
  • Juan J. Pulido,
  • Jesús Díaz-García,
  • Ana Rubio-Morales,
  • Miguel A. López-Gajardo

摘要

The present study aimed to analyze the relationship of transformational coach leadership with team identification and group cohesion, and its subsequent positive outcomes. Also, to examine the role of team identification and group cohesion in explaining the impact of the coach’s transformational leadership on perceived team performance and intention to return. Adopting a longitudinal design, a total of 260 male soccer players aged between 13 and 18 years (M = 15.84, SD = 1.30) participated in the study, completing measures at the middle and end of the season (two months apart). The Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) showed that: (1) transformational leadership was positively related to team identification and task cohesion; (2) team identification was positively associated to social and task cohesion, and intention to return; (3) only task cohesion showed a significant and positive relationship with intention to return and perceived team performance; (4) team identification positively mediated the relationship between transformational coach leadership and social and task cohesion, and intention to return; and (5) only task cohesion acted as a positive mediator between the transformational coach leadership and intention to return, and perceived team performance. Therefore, results suggest that transformational coach leadership is an important variable to consider with youth players in order to achieve individual and team positive consequences in the team sports context.