The relationship between perceived coach leadership behaviors and athletes satisfaction.

Athletes’ satisfaction on his/her specific sports is an essential factor to achieve optimum athletic performances. Satisfaction of athletes is a feeling of fulfillment/contentment derived from perceived and experienced leadership and behaviors exhibited by coaches. The purpose of this study was to determine the correlation between perceived coach leadership behaviors and satisfaction of collegiate athletes in the Philippines. Results revealed that there was a relationship between coach leadership behaviors and athletes’ level of satisfaction. Coaches who exhibited more on training and instruction, giving recognition, rewards, and positive feedback, and socially supportive behaviors produced more satisfied athletes. Moreover, rewarding behavior of coaches was the best predictor of team performance satisfaction and coaches’ leadership behaviors that focused on the training process to improve athletic performances was the best predictor of personal treatment satisfaction, training and instruction satisfaction, and individual treatment satisfaction of the athletes. There was no significant relationship found between autocratic leadership style of coaches and athletes’ level of satisfaction.