Coaching preferences of adolescent youths and their parents

Martin, Scott B.; Jackson, Allen W.; Richardson, Peggy A.; Weiller, Karen H.

doi:10.1080/10413209908404203

Cited by 49 publications

(44 citation statements)

References 19 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…Other notable studies which have considered the gender of the athlete include a study by Martin, Dale, and Jackson (2001) demonstrating that young female athletes preferred their coach to keep them active whereas young male athletes wanted a coach who put great emphasis on competition and fitness. Overall, both male and female athletes expressed a desire for a coach who invested time into enabling athletes to make friendships, who fostered team spirit, were competent at the skills they are trying to teach and kept the athletes active during training (Martin et al, 2001).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Overall, both male and female athletes expressed a desire for a coach who invested time into enabling athletes to make friendships, who fostered team spirit, were competent at the skills they are trying to teach and kept the athletes active during training (Martin et al, 2001). This research built upon earlier work by Martin, Jackson, Richardson, and Weiller (1999). Using a revised version of the Leadership for Sport Scale (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980), one difference found in the study between gender was that female athletes, more so than male athletes, wanted to be involved in a much greater capacity in what Martin et al (1999) termed "team happenings" (p. 199).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 2 more Smart Citations

The Coaching Needs of High Performance Female Athletes within the Coach-Athlete Dyad

Norman

2015

International Sport Coaching Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Within the research literature there is little work that has examined how coaches (and coaching) can positively influence female athletes' continued participation and development in performance sport. With this in mind, utilising a grounded theory approach, this study focused on what are the coaching preferences of female athletes within the elite coachathlete dyad. Through interviews with 27 current high performance female athletes, four major coaching needs were found. These were: to be supported as person as well a performer, coaching to be a joint endeavour, the need for positive communication and finally, recognition of the salience of gender within the coach-athlete dyad. The findings provide evidence that the relational expertise of coaches is at the forefront of these women's coaching needs. This study also demonstrates that for the participants, the coach-athlete relationship is at the heart of improving athletic training and performance, and that gender is an important influence on this relationship. Furthermore, the research highlights the strength of using an interpretive-qualitative paradigmatic approach to athlete preferences through foregrounding the women's voices and experiences.

show abstract

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

The Coaching Needs of High Performance Female Athletes within the Coach-Athlete Dyad

Norman

2015

International Sport Coaching Journal

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This result can be accepted quite natural if it was kept in mind that 91% of the coaches who were evaluated within the scope of our study are male. Because, according to the literature, it's known that female athletes generally favor to work with male coaches (Martin et al, 2001). Also women athletes prefer to interact more with their team-mates and coaches in order to improve themselves and increase their performances.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Athletes’ Perception of Coaches’ Behavior and Skills About Their Sport

Üzüm¹

2018

JETS

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This study examined the perception of athletes' about their coaches' behavior and skills in terms of knowledge and skills, fairness and coaches' characteristic features. The research was conducted by using relational survey method. The subjects of the study were 95 females and 180 males from diffrent sports. Both team sports athletes such as football, volleyball, basketball, handball and individual sports such as karate, taekwondo, wrestling, kickboxing voluntarily involved ın the study.Perceived Coach Attitudes and Behaviours Scale (PCABS) which was developed by Uzum et al. (2018) was used to asses percevied coaches' knowledge and skills, fairness and characteristic features by athletes. The scale was composed of 24 items and 3 sub-dimensions (Characteristic Features, Skills and Knowledge, Fairness). Uzum et al. (2018) reported the internal consistency for subscales of PCABS ranging from .56 and .88. For the purpose of this study the reliability of two sub-scales of the PCABS was examined using Cronbach's alpha coefficient (α=.83 for knowledge and skills; α=.81for characteristic features of coaches. The data was analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Tukey's Post-Hoc Analysis and Pearson Correlation analysis. The level of significance for the study was set at p<.05.The results of the study showed that the sub-dimension of characteristic features of coaches had the highest mean avarage. There were statistically significant differences between male athletes and female athletes in both dimensions of characteristic features of coaches and knowledge and skills (p<.05). Further analysis indicated that females scored higher than males in both dimensions. With regard to the level of coaching either professional or amateur, perception of characteristic features of coaches had higer scores in professional level than amateur (p<.05). Moreover, correlational analysis revealed that there was negatively significant correlation between age of the coaches and knowledge and skills dimension (r= -0.13). On the other hand, the variables such as age of athletes, year of sports performance, level of education, type of sports and the coachs' gender, marital status, education level of coaches, amount of time spent with the athlete did not show any significant relationship (p>.05).

show abstract

“…That is why CBAQ combines categories of behavior from CBAS (Smith et al, 1977) and multidimensionality resulting from the LSS (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1978, 1980. Studies by Martin et al (2001), in which a questionnaire CBAQ was used shows that athletes prefer such coachʼs behavior, which falls into the category of reinforcement, general encouragement, and general technical instruction. Further studies examined the eff ect of gender and type of sport on the coachs preferred be havior (Kravig, 2003).…”

Section: Coaching Behavior Assessment Questionnairementioning

confidence: 99%