Pooneh Mokhtari, Samira Mashhoodi and Hanieh Rahmati
The aim of this study was the relationships between coaching efficacy, collective efficacy, and group cohesion among pro-league and 1st division Iranian female futsal teams leauge. For this reason, 18 coaches with mean age of 36.37±6.61 years old and coaching experience of 11.34±5.48 years and 146 female futsal players with mean age of 26.12±8.50 years old and 12.76±5.38 years were selected and wanted them to fill the consent form, public demographic questionnaire, coaching Efficacy scale, collective efficacy and group cohesion questionnaires. The Pearson correlation coefficient and multivariate regressions tests in the level of significance p≥ 0.05 were used for statistical analysis. Findings indicated that, there is positive and significant relationship between collective efficacy and arousal efficacy (p≥ 0.05). Group cohesion has a positive and significant relationship with tactical efficacy, arousal efficacy, personalization efficacy, ability efficacy, effort efficacy, stability efficacy, readiness efficacy, solidarity efficacy and collective efficacy (p≥ 0.05). Multivariate regression test revealed that coaching efficacy dimensions including tactical efficacy, technical efficacy, arousal efficacy and personalization efficacy can be significant predictor of collective efficacy and group cohesion among pro-league and 1st division female futsal teams (p≥ 0.001), so that in comparison to group cohesion (22.6 %), this dimensions has a greater ratio in predicting collective efficacy (48.8 %). Based on the results of this study it’s concluded that promoting coaching abilities in own duties via focusing on their efficacy may promote female futsal teams performance due to increasing of collective efficacy and group cohesion.
