A Review of McFarland USA (2015) Movie in the Context of Leadership and Psychological Capital

The study aims to examine the general leadership characteristics, leadership development and leadership style of the Jim White character in the McFarland USA (2015) movie in the context of leadership, the psychological capital levels of the team players coached by the White character in the context of psychological capital, and the development of psychological capital together with White's leadership. In addition, revealing the relationship between leadership and psychological capital based on characters is another aim of the study. In line with these aims, the content analysis method, one of the qualitative research methods, is used. As a result of the content analysis, it is concluded that the character White possesses leadership traits and tends to exhibit servant leadership among leadership types. In terms of psychological capital, it is concluded that the psychological capital levels of team players are quite low before White's leadership, but their psychological capital levels improve with the influence of White's leadership. It is also concluded that team players contain content related to four dimensions of psychological capital (hope, optimism, resilience, self-efficacy).