2022 Volume 35 Issue 2 Pages 201-212
The purpose of this study was to clarify the relationship between the level of organizational commitment and the social power of sports coaches, and to identify the social power that coaches can rely on to increase organizational commitment based on that relationship. An online-questionnaire was used in this study, and 464 basketball players enrolled in the Division 1 of Kanto Collegiate Basketball Federation was a target for this study. A total of 166 basketball players participated in a self- administered questionnaire between the 29th of July and the 9th of August, 2020 (response rate: 35.8％). A multiple regression analysis was performed with the level of organizational commitment (Allen & Meyer, 1990) as the dependent variable and the five types of power resource (Mori, 2005) as the explanatory (Independent) variable. It was suggested that in order to increase organizational commitment, it is important for coaches to provide guidance that relies on the passion for coaching power and the expert powers.
