TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Scarred for the rest of my career? Career-long effects of abusive leadership on professional athlete aggression and task performance
JO  - Journal of sport and exercise psychology
A1  - Carleton, Erica L.
A1  - Barling, Julian
A1  - Christie, Amy M.
A1  - Trivisonno, Melissa
A1  - Tulloch, Kelsey
A1  - Beauchamp, Mark R.
SP  - 409
EP  - 422
VL  - 38
IS  - 4
N2  - Based on the contention that leadership has sustained effects on followers even after the leader-follower relationship has ended, we investigated the career-long effects of abusive coach leadership on athlete aggression and task performance. Abusive leadership scores were derived from ratings by two independent raters' evaluations of coaches' biographies, and athlete aggression and task performance data were derived from objective sources. Data were obtained from players (N = 693) and coaches (N = 57) involved in the National Basketball Association (NBA) between 2000/2001 and 2005/2006 seasons. Controlling for tenure, salary, team winning percentage and absence due to injuries, multilevel modeling showed that exposure to abusive leadership influenced both the trajectory of psychological aggression and task performance over players' careers. These findings suggest that the effects of abusive leadership extend far longer than currently acknowledged, thus extending our understanding of the nature and effects of abusive leadership.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0895-2779
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1123/jsep.2015-0333
ID  - ref1
ER  -