It's Not What They Do, It's How They Do It: Athlete Experiences of Great Coaching
By A. J. Becker. 2009
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The primary purpose of this study was to explore athlete experiences of great coaching. A total of 18 in-depth phenomenological interviews were conducted with elite level athletes (9 female; 9 male) representing a variety of sports (i.e., baseball, basketball, football, soccer, softball, volleyball, and water polo). Participants ranged in age from 22 to 42 years (M = 29.11, SD = 5.52). Interviews lasted between 30–90 minutes and were transcribed verbatim. Analyses of the transcripts revealed a total of 1,553 meaning units that were further grouped into sub-themes and general themes. This led to the development of a final thematic structure revealing six major dimensions characterizing athlete experiences of great coaching: Coach Attributes, The Environment, Relationships, The System, Coaching Actions, and Influences.
Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology
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- Autonomy-Supportive Pedagogical Approach to Sports Coaching: Research, Challenges and Opportunities (2014, background): “To date there have been a number of articles published using a qualitative research methodology investigating coaching effectiveness [50] and quality coaching attributes [51, 52].”
- A Pilot Test of Transformational Leadership Training for Sports Coaches: Impact on the Developmental Experiences of Adolescent Athletes (2013, background): “The importance of these components are highlighted by research that has shown that the personal experience of effective coaching is predominantly about the relationships and environment that the coach creates rather than a limited range of prescribed behaviours [24].”
- An Integrative Definition of Coaching Effectiveness and Expertise (2009, background): “The titles of these articles contain the following labels to describe their samples: successful, experienced, elite, expert, and great, and no two studies used the same criteria to identify their participants [14-18].”