| Abstract: | The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship among hockey coaches’ paternalistic leadership behavior, leisure coping strategies and Well-Being.This study was adopted questionnaire survey, receiving 902 effective questionnaires. Data analysis was applied, including descriptive statistics, one-way analysis of variance, Scheffè posterior comparisons, Pearson product moment correlation and so on. The results were as follows:
1. Hockey coaches’ paternalistic leadership behavior showed higher extent. Among each aspects, the highest was moral leadership, then benevolent leadership and the lowest was the authority leadership. There were obvious differences in each aspects as age, educational background and years of playing hockey, especially elementary students getting deeply feeling towards coaches’ leadership behavior.
2. Hockey players’ leisure coping strategies appeared higher extent. The players
thought highly of partnership leisure, then relaxing leisure and the lowest was the
improving emotional leisure. There were obvious differences in each aspects as
age, educational background and years of playing hockey. The trainee of
elementary students got deeply feeling towards leisure coping strategies.
3. Hockey players’ happiness presented higher extent. Among each aspects, the higher
was physical and mental health, then interpersonal relationship, and the lowest was satisfaction of life. There were obvious differences in each aspects as participant groups, age, educational background, years of playing hockey, years of following current coach and the best achievement.
4. The coaches’ leadership behavior of hockey teams also influenced players’ leisure coping strategies and happiness, meanwhile, hockey players’ leisure coping strategies influenced their happiness, too.
5. With leisure coping strategies, players were adjusted to coaches’ paternalistic leadership behavior and self-happiness. |
