2010 Volume 22 Pages 45-56
The present study examined whether the captain's leadership affects the club members' interpersonal skills and their adjustments to club activities in junior high school extracurricular athletic clubs, and whether the characteristics of club activities (such as individual sports and team sports) also affects the adjustment. The interpersonal skills were constructed of non-inclusive attitudes toward members of other small groups, active self-assertion, and egoistic self-assertion. Participants, 495 seventh-grade students belonging to athletic clubs at 6 junior high schools, completed a questionnaire. The following significant result was obtained: When diligent captains in team sports clubs were authoritarian, the members who were non-inclusive toward members of other small groups were more satisfied with the atmosphere in their clubs than when the diligent captains were non-authoritarian. We conclude that the relationship among characteristics of athletic club activities, club members' interpersonal skills and their captains' leadership style had a great influence on members' satisfaction to club activities.
