| The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships among job satisfaction, professional commitment, organization alienation, and coaching efficacy of school volleyball coaches in Taiwan. 332 school volleyball coaches who coach school volleyball teams were surveyed in 2005 in Taiwan. In order to conduct this study, there were five instruments used, including Job Satisfaction Scale, Professional Commitment Scale, Organizational Alienation Scale, Coaching Efficacy Scale, and demographic questions. The data was computed in statistical programs, the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) 12.0 and Linear Structural Relationships (LISREL) for Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). The results were as follows: (1) By one-way MANOVA, in this study the different groups in gender, school level, and type of teams showed significant difference in job satisfaction and professional commitment. The different groups in gender, and number of teams presented significant difference in organizational alienation. The different groups in coaching experience and type of teams demonstrated the significant difference in coaching efficacy. (2) By canonical correlation analysis, it was found that there were positive relationships of each variable related to each of the other variables among coaching efficacy, job satisfaction, and professional commitment except organizational alienation. (3) The LISREL model was an acceptable model. Chi-Square value was chi2 (98) = 255.08, p = 0.00, chi 2/degrees of freedom ratio was 2.603, Root Mean Square Error of Approximation (RMSEA) was 0.070, Goodness-of-Fit Index (GFI) was 0.91, and Comparative Fit Index (CFI) was 0.96. The relationships among job satisfaction, professional commitment, organizational alienation, and coaching efficacy demonstrated that job satisfaction had a negative and significant effect on organizational alienation; then, the relationship between organizational alienation had a negative and significant effect on professional commitment. Finally, professional commitment had significantly positive effect on coaching efficacy. |
