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The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between Coaches` leadership
styles with the sporting field, sex and age of the athletes in Zanjan-Iran. The study was carried
out in basketball , football , athletics and kung fu in-season training. The study is applied and
descriptive - correlational. The Statistical population were athletes in sports clubs including
basketball, soccer, track and field, and Kung Fu in Zanjan. The Sample was chosen through
stratified sampling with optimal assignment with 200 people (50 per field).Our measuring tool
was leadership scale (RLSS), presented by Zhang, Jensen, and Mann (1997). Of course, Validity
and reliability of the instrument were approved by experts. The data were analyzed using SPSS
and descriptive data analysis of the mean, frequency, percentage deviation ,one way ANOVA
and Pearson correlation.
The research findings indicate a significant difference between the average of the coaches`
leadership roles in various sports. Also, there was a negative relationship between players` age
and coaches` leadership styles. However,there was no significant relationship between the
athletes`sporting background and coaches` leadership styles
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