title: The role of athlete narcissism in moderating the relationship between coaches' transformational leader behaviors and athlete motivation.
abstract: Leadership research that examines follower characteristics as a potential moderator of leadership effectiveness is lacking. Within Bass's (1985) transformational leadership framework, we examined follower narcissism as a moderator of the coach behavior-coach effectiveness relationship. Youth athletes (male = 103, female = 106) from the Singapore Sports Academy (mean age = 14.28, SD = 1.40 years) completed the Differentiated Transformational Leadership Inventory (Callow, Smith, Hardy, Arthur, & Hardy, 2009), the Narcissistic Personality Inventory (Raskin & Terry, 1988), and indices of follower effort. Multilevel analyses revealed that athlete narcissism moderated the relationship between fostering acceptance of group goals and athlete effort and between high performance expectations and athlete effort. All the other transformational leader behaviors demonstrated main effects on follower effort, except for inspirational motivation.
authors: School of Sport Health and Exercise Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, Gwynedd, United Kingdom.
authors: Calum Alexander
authors: CA
authors: Arthur
authors: Tim
authors: T
authors: Woodman
authors: Chin Wei
authors: CW
authors: Ong
authors: Lew
authors: L
authors: Hardy
authors: Nikos
authors: N
authors: Ntoumanis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D054874:Athletic Performance; D005260:Female; D006126:Group Processes; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D008297:Male; D009042:Motivation; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D009289:Narcissism; D010551:Personality; D012846:Singapore; D013177:Sports / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult