THE INFLUENCE OF LEADERSHIP ON MOTIVATION OF JUNIOR SOCCER ATHLETES

Abstract

The aim of this study was identify the team lider and how his motivation can influence other athletes and the own team. It's known that psychology work has the objective to analyze changes in psychology training and modifications on process and psycho states (motivation and leader). The sample was composed by 48 male athletes from basic categories of Curitiba's soccer teams  age of 17,58 (1,27) years old. It's used 2 instruments of research for data collect: Leader Inventory and Psychometric properties of the Intrinsic Motivation Inventory in a competitive sport settting. Data were analyzed using a descriptive statistic and a variance analyze (p<0,05). The results have demonstrated high motivation levels  (mean and sd: 71,85 (4,24) in scale between 18 to 90 points. Motivation have no influence in age neither in athlete position (stating player or substitution player), as there wasn't any significant difference among these variables. Regression linear analyzes developed to identify the association among motivation, lider and non-lider demonstrated there weren't any associations. It's conclude that the liderança doesn't show any influence among motivation, athletes position or liderança, but it's necessary to recognize that there's something maintaining high motivation of this soccer athletes.