The mediating role of social goals in the relationships between teachers' transformational leadership, prosocial climate, and motor self-efficacy in physical education students.
Rafael E Reigal, Verónica Morales-Sánchez, Rui Matos, Antonio Hernández-Mendo
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Abstract
Background: There is a limited body of research explaining the associations between transformational leadership and prosocial climate, particularly when considering social goals as mediating variables. Furthermore, no studies have explored the mediating effect of social goals and prosocial climate in the relationships between transformational leadership and motor self-efficacy.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between transformational leadership, social goals, prosocial climate, and the perception of motor self-efficacy. Specifically, this research intends to determine the mediating role of social goals in the relationships between teacher transformational leadership, prosocial climate, and motor self-efficacy in Physical Education students.
Method: The study involved 392 adolescents (52.81% male, n = 207; 47.19% female, n = 185) aged between 14 and 16 years (M = 15.07; SD = 0.78), who were secondary school students in various educational institutions in the city of Málaga (Spain). Data were collected using the Transformational Teaching Questionnaire, the Social Goals in Physical Education Scale, the School Prosocial Climate Questionnaire, and the Motor Self-Efficacy Scale.
Results: The results revealed multiple relationships among the studied variables. Specifically, a mediation effect of social goals was observed between transformational leadership and prosocial climate, as well as a mediation effect of social goals and prosocial climate in the relationship between transformational leadership and motor self-efficacy.
Conclusion: These findings suggest an association between transformational leadership, prosocial climate, and motor self-efficacy, highlighting the importance of social goals as key variables in understanding these relationships.
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Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.
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