Weightlifting Trainers' Ethical Leadership Behaviors According to Athlete Perceptions

The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the ethical leadership behaviors of weightlifting trainers by athletes and to examine these data in terms of demographic variables. The research group consists of 266 participants. "Ethical Leadership Scale" developed by Yılmaz (2005) was used for data collection. In the analysis of the data, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Analysis, One-Way ANOVA and t-Test were used as well as percentage and frequency distributions. According to the results of the study, no significant difference was found in the variables of gender, educational status, and being a national athlete (p> 0.05), while a low-level negative relationship was found between the age variable and the subdimensions of "Climatic Ethics" and "Ethics in Decision Making". While a significant difference was reached in all subdimensions of the Ethical Leadership Scale depending on the coaching level variable, a significant difference was reached only in the “Ethics in Decision Making” sub-dimension depending on the duty year variable (p <0.05).In the light of the findings obtained, in terms of leadership features, weightlifting trainers; It is thought that as their age increases, they exhibit less climatic and ethical values in decision-making, as their coaching levels increase, they move away from ethics in communicative, climatic, behavioral and decision-making, and as their term of office increases, they give less place to ethical rules in decision-making due to professional deformation.