Coach Leadership Behaviour and Athlete Mental Health: A Literature Review
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of coach leadership behaviour and athlete mental health among Selangor individual sport athlete. Adopting a quantitative survey questionnaire, 93 SUKMA individual sport athletes will participate in this study to identify their perception coach leadership behaviour and determine their mental health symptoms of the four major mental disorders: Anxiety Disorder, Depression, Suicidality and Substance Abuse. By this, the study will find the whether those athletes experiencing any mental health symptom that influence by one of the coach leadership behaviour. Leadership Scale of Sports (40) items are used to find the coach leadership behaviour perceived by the Selangor individual sport athlete and Symptom Assessment Measure-Adult (11) items used to find the mental health symptom.
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