Measuring leadership in sport: Development and validation of the Identity Leadership Inventory - Youth (ILI-Y).

Autor: Butalia R; Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Tervuursevest 101, Box 1500, 3001, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: Radhika.butalia@kuleuven.be., Miller A; Centre of Applied Psychology and Performance, Staffordshire University, Ashley 1, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, ST4 2DF, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. Electronic address: anthony.miller2@staffs.ac.uk., Steffens NK; School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, St. Lucia, 4072, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: n.steffens@uq.edu.au., Haslam SA; School of Psychology, The University of Queensland, McElwain Building, St. Lucia, 4072, QLD, Australia. Electronic address: a.haslam@uq.edu.au., Bruner MW; School of Physical and Health Education, Nipissing University, 100 College Drive, North Bay, ON, Canada, P1B8L7. Electronic address: markb@nipissingu.ca., McLaren CD; Department of Experiential Studies in Community and Sport, Cape Breton University, 1250 Grand Lake Road, Sydney, NS, Canada, B1M1A2. Electronic address: colin_mclaren@cbu.ca., Boen F; Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Tervuursevest 101, Box 1500, 3001, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: filip.Boen@kuleuven.be., Slater MJ; Centre of Applied Psychology and Performance, Staffordshire University, Ashley 1, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, ST4 2DF, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. Electronic address: M.Slater@staffs.ac.uk., Dunn K; Centre of Applied Psychology and Performance, Staffordshire University, Ashley 1, Staffordshire University, Leek Road, ST4 2DF, Stoke-on-Trent, United Kingdom. Electronic address: d012063j@student.staffs.ac.uk., Fransen K; Department of Movement Sciences, KU Leuven, Tervuursevest 101, Box 1500, 3001, Leuven, Belgium. Electronic address: katrien.fransen@kuleuven.be.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Psychology of sport and exercise [Psychol Sport Exerc] 2024 Jul; Vol. 73, pp. 102630. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Mar 21.
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychsport.2024.102630
Abstrakt: The social identity approach to leadership posits that leaders' effectiveness depends on their ability to represent, advance, create, and embed a shared sense of social identity among their followers. Although significant progress has been made in investigating the benefits of identity leadership in adult sports, research in youth sports is still in its infancy. One reason is the lack of a youth-centric inventory that adequately measures identity leadership in this population. To bridge this gap, we developed and validated a long (16 items) and short (5 items) version of the Identity Leadership Inventory for Youth Sport (ILI-Y or ILI-Y-Short-Form) through five studies conducted in three phases of research. Data were primarily collected in football in the United Kingdom, involving a total of 1096 participants. Results of Phase I of this study provided little to no evidence that the ILI - originally developed for adults - was understandable (Study 1) and had factor validity and internal consistency (Study 2) in a sample of youth athletes. Therefore, in Phase II, the ILI was revised, leading to the development of the ILI-Y, which was understandable for youth athletes (Study 3). Results from Phase II (Study 4) also indicated that the ILI-Y exhibited a unidimensional factor structure, which was subsequently confirmed in Phase III (Study 5). This last phase offered additional evidence for the discriminant, criterion, and incremental validity of the ILI-Y and its short form, along with their measurement invariance across genders and age groups, and internal consistency. This study provides sports psychology researchers and practitioners with a valid measure to assess identity leadership in youth sports.
Competing Interests: Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.
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