A Roundtable With College Strength and Conditioning Coaches: Working With Sport Coaches

Job analysis of college Division I-A football strength and conditioning coaches.

This investigation consisted of a job analysis of 6 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I-A strength and conditioning coaches (SCC). All the subjects in the study were primarily responsible for providing strength and conditioning services to their institution's football programs. The procedures used for the gathering of data consisted of 3 questionnaires and a semi-structured inte...

Sport Commitment in High Perfomance Basketball Coaches

The aim of this research is to determine the arguments of commitment of sixteen basketball coaches of high performance, and establish what are the most prominent within the categories that mark the literature. To do this, there has been a qualitative research as a research technique using semi-structured interviews. According to the questions were set general themes or categories on which to pl...

Exploring predictors of sport commitment in coaches

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Women Coaches’ Perceptions of Their Sport Organizations’ Social Environment: Supporting Coaches’ Psychological Needs?

Researchers have argued that coaches are performers in their own right and that their psychological needs should be considered (Giges, Petitpas, & Vernacchia, 2004; Gould, Greenleaf, Guinan, & Chung, 2002). The purpose of this research was to examine high performance women coaches’ perceptions of their sport organizations’ social context, with specific attention to psychological need support. S...

The Use of Psychology within Strength and Conditioning: Coaches‘ Perceptions, Applied Use, and Future Recommendations