Dataset for The Relationship of Coach-Created Motivational Climate to Teamwork Behaviors in Female Collegiate Athletes.sav

Although the development of, and engagement in, teamwork behaviors, such as understanding their purpose, developing and executing plans, and nurturing teammate relationships, would be expected to emerge from coach-created task-involving climates, no study has examined this connection. Thus, we examined how athletes’ perceptions of the coach-created motivational climate relate to beliefs about their team’s teamwork behaviors (e.g., Preparation, Execution). Participants were female NCAA Division I collegiate athletes (<i>N </i>= 536; <i>M</i>_age= 20.13 years, <i>SD </i>= 1.36; 79.3% White) who completed the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire and the Multidimensional Assessment of Teamwork in Sport – Short Form. Hierarchical and nonhierarchical cluster analyses revealed that the athletes were experiencing one of three coach-created motivational climates: low task/high ego, moderate task/moderate ego, and high task/low ego. There was a significant main effect for the motivational climate clusters in relation to the five teamwork areas, Pillai’s Trace = .154, <i>F</i>(10, 1048) = 8.76, <i>p</i> &lt; .001, partial η² = .08. Post-hoc descriptive discriminant analysis (DDA) revealed a single significant function, Wilk’s Λ = .848, χ²(10) = 87.66, <i>p</i> &lt; .001, on which all five areas contributed. The motivational clusters’ group centroids were significantly different, <i>F</i>(2, 533) = 47.64, <i>p</i> &lt; .001, partial η² = .15; athletes in high task/low ego motivational climates endorsed a higher level of teamwork behaviors compared to those in moderate task/moderate ego (<i>d</i> = .54) and low task/high ego (<i>d</i> = 1.14) climates. These findings suggest the importance of coach-created motivational climates on the teamwork behaviors athletes endorse.