Perceção de liderança e desempenho nos treinadores de formação

: influências da representatividade de género no contexto

Abstract

Women continue to be a minority in the occupation of leadership positions (32% of women), and it is in sports where this discrepancy is most felt (more than 80% of coaches are men). Faced with this reality, it becomes even more important to understand the perception of coaches regarding their leadership behaviors and performance as leaders. The present study aimed to test the relationship between coaches’ gender and their representativeness in the context of the perception of leadership and performance behaviors. 305 youth coaches from across the country (27% women) completed a questionnaire, assessing the perception of leadership, performance and gender representative context. For this study, the context was evaluated in two different ways: (1) Perception of representativeness (subjective measure) and (2) Real representativeness (statistical data from the IPDJ, objective measure). The results indicated that transformational behaviors predict performance perception, and that coaches who perceive themselves to be in contexts non-representative of their gender tend to use more transformational and positive feedback behaviors than those in that perceive to be inserted in representative contexts. Female coaches also generally tend to use more negative feedback than male coaches. These results were only verified with the subjective measure of contextual representativeness.

Date of Award	12 Jul 2024
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Catarina Morais (Supervisor)