Paskevich, DavidGarcia Orellana, Daniela2023-05-232023-05-232023-05-10Garcia Orellana, D. (2023). Emotional intelligence and transformational leadership in sport coaches: the mediating role of coaching efficacy and the relationship to coach-athlete relationships (Master's thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.https://hdl.handle.net/1880/116567https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/dspace/41410The aim of this research was to develop greater insight into the relationships between coaching efficacy, transformational leadership, emotional intelligence in addition to coach-athlete relationships. Due to the limited research of these variables in the field of sport psychology, one-hundred and forty-seven coaches associated with Hockey Calgary completed the Coaching Efficacy Scale (CES; Feltz et al., 1999), Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire (MLQ; Bass, 1998), Schutte’s Emotional Intelligence Scale (SEIS) (Schutte et al., 1998) and the Coach-Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (CART-Q; Jowett & Ntoumanis, 2004). Using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) to examine the hypothetical mediational effect of coaching efficacy (CE) between emotional intelligence (EI) and transformational leadership (TFL). Additionally, coach-athlete relationships were examined to see how this measure correlated with EII, Ce, and TFL. Based on SEM, the final model had a good fit for the data, where coaching efficacy had a significant positive direct effect on transformational leadership, emotional intelligence, and coach-athlete relationships. A significant finding was that coaching efficacy partially mediated the relationship between emotional intelligence and transformational leadership. Pearson correlation analyses were also conducted and found that positive moderate correlations (r = 0.4-0.59) were found between most variables on the CES, MLQ, SEIS and CART-Q and negative weak correlations were found between the transactional leadership variables in the MLQ and variables of the CES, SEIS and CART-Q.enUniversity of Calgary graduate students retain copyright ownership and moral rights for their thesis. You may use this material in any way that is permitted by the Copyright Act or through licensing that has been assigned to the document. For uses that are not allowable under copyright legislation or licensing, you are required to seek permission.CoachingTransformational LeadershipEmotional IntelligenceCoach Athlete RelationshipsRecreationmaster thesis