The Leadership Behavior and Creativity of Sports Coaches with Athletes Satisfactions among Futsal Team in Malaysia Public Universities

This research emphasizes the relationships between leadership behavior and creativity among sports coaches with futsal athletes’ satisfaction. The study uses the Leadership Scale for Sport (LSS) include training and instruction, democratic behavior, autocratic behavior, social support, and positive feedback. The satisfaction considered as the dependent variable in this study and use the Athletes Satisfaction Questionnaire (ASQ) as the measurement. This study uses quantitative methods with 5-Likert scale measurement. The LSS consists of 40 items as measurement and for creativity, there are about 10 items used. Meanwhile, from the ASQ, there are about 20 items considered as measurement. The subjects of this study are 50 futsal players from public universities in Malaysia. The use of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 25.0 will be carried out in acquisition of the results through reliability test, descriptive analysis, and correlation. The results prove, if the p-value for the items of LSS and creativity is more than 0.01, it will strengthen the significantly positive relationships towards satisfaction. This study found that there is a relationship between Leadership Behavior and Creativity with Futsal Athletes’ Satisfaction.