The purpose of this study was to investigate Paralympic coaches' perceptions of team cohesion. Seven head coaches of summer and winter Canadian Paralympic sport teams participated in the study. Four participants coached individual sports and 3 coached team sports. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and analyzed using thematic analysis. The results addressed the coaches' percept...

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...

UK sprint coaches’ employment of common racial stereotypes in explaining the success of Black and White sprinters was studied. It was hypothesised that the Black success would be attributed to innate genetic factors, whereas White success would be attributed to socioeconomic advantages, intelligence, and hard work. Thirty-one sprint coaches participated in success attribution exercises. Quantit...

The mastery approach to coaching is a cognitive-behavioral intervention designed to promote a mastery-involving motivational climate, shown in previous research to be related to lower anxiety in athletes. We tested the effects of this intervention on motivational climate and on changes in male and female athletes'cognitive and somatic performance anxiety over the course of a basketball season. ...

Embedded in the self-determination theory (Deci & Ryan, 2000) framework, we obtained self-report data from 418 paid and voluntary coaches from a variety of sports and competitive levels with the aim of exploring potential antecedents of coaches' perceived autonomy supportive and controlling behaviors. Controlling for socially desirable responses, structural equation modeling revealed that great...

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...

BACKGROUND The Stanford Youth Diabetes Coaches Program (SYDCP) is a school based health program in which Family Medicine residents train healthy at-risk adolescents to become diabetes self-management coaches for family members with diabetes. This study evaluates the impact of the SYDCP when disseminated to remote sites. Additionally, this study aims to assess perceived benefit of enhanced curri...

UNLABELLED Despite their popularity, empirical support for health coaches is limited. OBJECTIVE This study examined the feasibility and preliminary efficacy of three types of coaching models for obesity treatment. DESIGN AND METHODS Participants (N = 44) were randomized to 6 months of reduced intensity group behavioral weight loss (rBWL) plus one of three types of health coaches: (i) Profes...

BACKGROUND Participation in organised youth sports (OYS) has been recommended as an opportunity to increase young peoples' moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) levels. Participants, however, spend a considerable proportion of time during OYS inactive. The purpose of this study, therefore, was to investigate whether coaches who attended coach education sessions (where education on incre...

Examinations of stress in coaches have mainly been qualitative and focused on chronic stressors. This exploratory study examined stress responses in coaches during competition, including psychological and physiological indices. Using reversal theory, we examined metamotivational state profiles during competition. Ten male team sport coaches (mean age 39.8 ± 13.12 years) reported levels of subje...