Loughead, Todd

McCaughan, Mitch

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University of Windsor Scholarship at UWindsor Research Result Summaries 7-31-2020 An examination of the relationships between personality dimensions and athlete leadership behaviours Todd Loughead University of Windsor, loughead@uwindsor.ca Mitch McCaughan University of Windsor, mccaughm@uwindsor.ca Follow this and additional works at: https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/research-result-summaries Consistent with the TCPS 2 (4.7) this is a research summary provided to participants and should not be considered a formal publication of results. Recommended Citation Loughead, T., & McCaughan, M. (2020). An examination of the relationships between personality dimensions and athlete leadership behaviours. Retrieved from https://scholar.uwindsor.ca/research-result-summaries/109 This Completed Summary is brought to you for free and open access by Scholarship at UWindsor. It has been accepted for inclusion in Research Result Summaries by an authorized administrator of Scholarship at UWindsor. For more information, please contact scholarship@uwindsor.ca. An examination of the relationships between personality dimensions and athlete leadership behaviours  Mitchell D. McCaughan and Todd M. Loughead University of Windsor  Athlete leadership is defined as “an athlete occupying a formal or informal leadership role within a team and influences team members to achieve a common objective” (Loughead, 2017, p. 58). The study of athlete leadership is guided by numerous theoretical models such as the multidimensional model of leadership (Chelladurai, 2007). According to these models, personality will influence the behaviour of the leader. Very little research in sport has examined the relationship between personality and leader behaviour. This is unfortunate because personality traits are a precondition for leadership, providing the potential for leadership (Andersen, 2006).To better understand athlete leader behaviours, this study examined the relationship between personality and leadership behaviours of athlete leaders. Athlete leaders (N = 101) rated their agreement on the Big Five Inventory (John & Srivastava, 1999), and rated the frequency of their own leadership behaviours assessed by the Differentiated Transformational Leadership Inventory (Callow et al., 2009) and Leadership Scale for Sports (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980). Model fit indices from the path analysis support our model (χ2/df = 1.10, CFI = .99, NFI = .92, RMSEA = .03). Further, the results showed the personality dimensions of openness to experience, extraversion, and conscientiousness predicted most of the leadership behaviours, while the other two personality dimensions (i.e., neuroticism, agreeableness) predicted at least one leadership behaviour. These findings provide evidence that personality is positively related to athlete leadership behaviours. The results indicate that athlete leader’s personality should be taken into account when delivering any type of athlete leadership development program. 

An examination of the relationships between personality dimensions and athlete leadership behaviours

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