title: Transformational and transactional leadership and exercise-related self-efficacy: an exploratory study.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between transformational and transactional leadership behaviors and the self-efficacy ofparticipants involved in a structured 10-week exercise program. Three weeksinto their exercise classes 174 females (M age = 25.36 years, SD = 8.48) provided ratings of their exercise instructor's leadership behaviors as well as their personal efficacy related to scheduling, over-coming barriers and within-class capabilities. Results revealed that for exercise initiates, contingent rewards behaviors were able to explain unique variation in scheduling self-efficacy and barrier self-efficacy, but not within-class self-efficacy. For experienced exercisers, none of the leadership behaviors assessed in this study were associated with participant self-efficacy.
authors.affiliation: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. mark.beauchamp@ubc.ca
authors.forename: Mark R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Beauchamp
authors.forename: Amy S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Welch
authors.forename: Angie J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Hulley
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D015444:Exercise; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D020377:Self Efficacy; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D006113:United Kingdom