Estudo da validação do questionário de ambiente de grupo e sua relação com a liderança no contexto esportivo competitivo

• Ano de defesa: 2011
• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento Junior, José Roberto Andrade do
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual de Maringá; Brasil; Programa de Pós-Graduação Associado em Educação Física - UEM/UEL; UEM; Maringá, PR; Centro de Ciências da Saúde
• Palavras-chave em Português: Futsal - Técnico - Liderança; Equipes esportivas - Coesão de grupo; Esportes competitivo - Técnico - Liderança; Futsal - Técnico - Comportamento; Desempenho esportivo - Grupo - Coesão; Questionário de ambiente de grupo (QAG) - Educação física - Validação; Ciências da Saúde; Educação Física
• Link de acesso: http://repositorio.uem.br:8080/jspui/handle/1/2212

This study aimed to validate The Group Environment Questionnaire (GEG) and its connections with the sporting context. The study was divided into two parts: Study (1) validation of the Group Environment Questionnaire into Portuguese language; and Study (2) analysis of group cohesion and leadership behavior of the coach of indoor soccer teams. In Study (1), the subjects were 502 adult athletes, male and female, of the collective sports soccer (97), indoor soccer (83), volleyball (142), basketball (55), handball (60), rugby (49) and beach volleyball (16) of cities of the north, northwest and western regions of the state of Paraná. The instrument used for the validation process (Study 1) was the Group Environment Questionnaire. It was used the back translation method, content analysis of items, internal consistency analysis by Cronbach's alpha, analysis of test-retest reliability using the intraclass correlation coefficient and the validity of construct by confirmatory factor analysis. In Study (2), the subjects were adult athletes (122) and their coaches (8) of the eight best teams in the Parana Championship of indoor soccer-Gold Key 2010, totaling 130 subjects. The instruments used were the Group Environment Questionnaire (GEG) and the Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS). For data analysis it was used the Kolmogorov Smirnov, repeated measures ANOVA, Mann-Whitney and Spearman correlation (p <0.05). The results of Study (1) showed that all dimensions of the QAG had high coefficients of internal consistency (α=0,76 to α=0,83), as well as high test-retest reliability was found using the intraclass correlation coefficient (r=0,95 to r=0,96); to the validity of the construct, two items of the QAG (2 and 5) were excluded to the model because they did not present individual reliability; the values of the global indicators of fit of the inspected model for QAG with 16 items resulting from the confirmatory factor analysis (X2=309,72; df=95; p≤0,001; X2/gl=3,02; GFI=0,936; AGFI=0,90; CFI=0,93; TLI/NFI=0,93/0,91; RMSEA=0,06) express its construct validity. The results of the study (2) demonstrated that high level indoor soccer athletes are focused on the task cohesion rather than social cohesion; (p=0,001); there was significant difference in the level of group cohesion among National League teams and Parana Championship teams (p=0,001); it was observed that the athletes felt that their coaches had a behavior based primarily on training-instruction (Md=4,2), reinforcement (Md=4,1) and social support (Md=3,7), and more democratic style over the autocratic (p<0,05); the coaches of the Parana Championship teams provided further instructions, reinforcement and social support to athletes, in addition to having more democratic style over coaches of the National League (p<0,05); it was found that the more coaches provide instruction, social support and reinforcement, it is greater the group cohesion of teams and that the more autocratic is the coach, lower the cohesion for the task (p<0,05); teams with democratic coaches style showed higher levels of task cohesion over to the teams with autocratic coaches (p<0,05). Conclusion: Study (1) - the instrument (GEQ) is valid and reliable to reality of the Parana and Brazil; Studies (2): the leadership style of the coach is an intervening factor in the perception of cohesion of the indoor soccer teams.