A study of Leadership Behavior of Junior High School Volleyball Team Coaches and Team Cohesiveness in Taiwan

[[abstract]]The purpose of this research is to reveal the relationship between the coach leadership behavior awared by the athletes and the cohesiveness at senior high school volleyball team in Taiwan. The subjects are athletes who participated in Leagues of Taiwan Senior High School Volleyball Competition in 95th Academic Year. The study adopted the survey method and proceeded to collect the data by using the questionnaires of ??A Scale of Leadership Behavior and Team Cohesiveness Inventory??. Descriptive statistics, T test, one-way ANOVA, Schaffer?s method and stepwise regression were used to analyze the data collected, which resulted in several conclusions as below: 1. The differences of senior high school volleyball athletes? background variables would affect the perception of athletes to their coaches? leadership behavior, and there existed significant difference in ?Sex?, ?Age?, ?Years to be the athlete?, ?Training frequency? and ?Performance?. 2. There is significant difference in team cohesiveness in different background variables of senior high school volleyball athletes, which existed significant difference in team coherence in ?Age?, ?Years to be the athlete?, ?Training frequency ? and ?Performance?. 3. The relationship between the team cohesiveness and the coach?s leadership behavior that senior high school volleyball athletes awared of. All the correlation coefficients between every dimension of ?Leadership Behavior? and ?Team Coherence? were significant, and they were positive correlation additionally. According to this result, the more ?Training and instruction?, ?Care?, ?Democracy?, ?Reward? and ?Autarchy? the coaches behave, the more ?Team Cohesiveness? will be. 4. In the stepwise regression analysis of coach leadership behavior and the team cohesiveness, the ?Training and instruction? and ?Care? of the coaches leadership behavior could effectively predict the ?Team Cohesiveness? of the senior high III school volleyball athletes. That indicates that the more ?Training and instruction? and ?Care? the coaches behave, the more ?Team cohesiveness? will be