The purpose of this study was to analyse Portuguese coaches' perceptions of, and preferences for, knowledge sources as related to professional background; namely academic education level, coach education level and coaching experience. The study's participants comprised 336 Portuguese coaches from twenty-two sports. A questionnaire was used to identify coaches' demographic characteristics and re...

the aim of this study was to determine the relationship between leadership styles of coaches and satisfaction of iranian elite judo players which was carried out by a descriptive – correlation field method. the statistical population of this study consisted of all 162 judo players of premier league in iran. statistical sample consisted of 125 judo players based on morgan sample size table. in o...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of professional burnout experienced by Turkish judo coaches and to compare possible differences in the three burnout dimensions based on coaching experience in years and satisfaction status of their sport administrators. METHODS The data were obtained by using a three-section questionnaire including a socio demographic data ...

BACKGROUND Simple observational assessment of movement is a potentially low-cost method for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury screening and prevention. Although many individuals utilize some form of observational assessment of movement, there are currently no substantial data on group skill differences in observational screening of ACL injury risk. PURPOSE/HYPOTHESIS The purpose of this...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to explore how an exclusive sample of women's national football team coaches described how they implement careful coaching while facing social and organizational pressure to win medals. METHOD To consider coaches' negotiations, we drew on Noddings' concept of caring. Using an interpretive research paradigm, we conducted in-depth interviews with five Swedi...

the aim of this paper was to explain strange captivation of physical education professors and coaches to their work in the form of workaholism. statistical population of this research included professors of physical education faculties and tehran sport coaches and a sample was selected randomly. a questionnaire was used to collect the data. the research methodology was survey based on structura...

I n recent times, we have seen widespread publicity given to domestic child abuse in the lay press, and there is every reason to suspect that sport is not immune from this problem. In Australia for example, a well known international cricket umpire was recently jailed for child sex allegations made when he was a schoolteacher. In 2001, a UK based tennis coach was jailed for seven years (with a ...