AUTHOR=Park Myoung-eun , Byon Kevin K. 

TITLE=Exploring the relationship between super-leadership, self-leadership, and exercise commitment in university Taekwondo teams

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 15 - 2024

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1323503

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1323503

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Introduction</title><p>Promoting super-leadership is crucial for the sustainable growth of college sport teams, especially as teams are experiencing a noticeable shift towards a more horizontal dynamic, where athletes themselves are emerging as leaders. However, there is a lack of research on the effectiveness of super-leadership and its possible outcomes in the context of collegiate Taekwondo teams.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>This study aims to investigate the impact of super-leadership on athletes’ self-leadership and exercise commitment and examine the mediating role of self-leadership in this relationship among collegiate Taekwondo athletes in South Korea. A total of 147 survey data were analyzed by structural equation modeling.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>The findings revealed that super-leadership was found to have a positive impact on both athletes’ self-leadership (<italic>β</italic> = 0.71, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.001) and exercise commitment (<italic>β</italic> = 0.30, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.05). Additionally, the study reveals athletes’ self-leadership significantly impacts exercise commitment (<italic>β</italic> = 0.34, <italic>p</italic> &lt; 0.05). Our findings also demonstrate that self-leadership was identified as a partial mediator in the relationship between super-leadership and exercise commitment (∆<italic>χ</italic><sup>2</sup> = 4.46, <italic>p</italic> &gt; 0.05).</p></sec><sec><title>Discussion</title><p>Theoretical and practical implications were discussed based on the current study’s findings.</p></sec>