Investigating the Effect of Coaches Communication Skills on Socialization and Satisfaction of Students Participating in Football Leisure Classes

The purpose of this study was investigate the effect of coaches’ communication skills on socialization and satisfaction of students participating in football leisure classes. The research method was descriptive-correlational based on structural equation modelling. The Social Skills Questionnaire (Inderbitzen & Garbin, 1992), Communication Skill Questionnaire (Burton, 1990) and Satisfaction Questionnaire (Riemer & Chelladurai, 1998) were used to gathering data. The participants included all the students in the secondary school and football schools of district 7th of Mashhad (N=300). Sampling was done randomly based on 5 to 10 times the number of research items (n=159). Data analysis was performed using SPSS version 22 and LISREL 8.80. Findings showed that there was a positive and significant correlation between communication skills of coaches with the social skills of students (p<0.05), and the components of communication skills have the ability to predict 31% of changes of social skills. Also, there was a positive and significant correlation between communication skills of coaches and student's satisfaction (p<0.05), and the components of communication skills were able to predict 27% of changes of satisfaction. Finally, the structural equation model showed a good correlation between communication skills of coaches, socialization skills and satisfaction of students participating in football leisure classes.