Mentoring relationships among athletes, coaches, and athletic administrators: A literature review

Fraina, Michael; Hodge, Samuel R.

doi:10.1080/19357397.2020.1768033

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“…This is consistent with the literature that states social factors influence the motivation and stress factors that can lead to burnout [ 38 ]. Therefore, in future seasons, a greater focus on inter-club socializing, as well as a more formalized mentoring program within clubs could be rewarding and help to develop athletes as individuals while avoiding additional physical load, whether a hub model is implemented or not [ 39 ]. Whilst Fisher [ 40 ] posed that stress may result from role underload or role overload, few studies explore how the contemporaneous experience of role overload and underload impacts on the experience of work.…”

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Elite sport hubs during COVID-19: The job demands and resources that exist for athletes

Marshall

McNeil²,

Seal³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, elite sport leagues implemented hubs, or ‘bubbles’, which restricted athletes’ movements and social interactions in order to minimise the risk of athlete infection and allow competitions to continue. This was a new way of working and living for elite athletes and there was a dearth of literature on this topic. The main objective of the study was to investigate the impacts of the hub model on athletes over time, and what job demands and resources existed for athletes through the application of Demerouti et al. (2001) Job Demands-Resources Model. Multiple sequential semi-structured interviews were conducted with Women’s National Basketball League (WNBL) athletes during the 2020 season, which was held entirely in a hub in North Queensland, Australia. The key job demands in an elite sport hub identified were the volume of work, simultaneous overload and underload, and nature of work in the hub. The key resources that emerged include recovery services, control and player agency, and constructive social relations. Despite the presence of job resources, which work to counteract, or buffer job demands in order to reduce work stress and improve motivation, they were found to be insufficient for athletes and inequitably distributed between clubs. The intensity of the hub model also amplified demands present in all WNBL seasons. This research is therefore useful for planning of future elite sport leagues to improve the type and amount of resources available to athletes, thereby improving athlete wellbeing and performance both within and outside a hub model.

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Elite sport hubs during COVID-19: The job demands and resources that exist for athletes

Marshall

McNeil²,

Seal³

et al. 2022

PLoS ONE

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“…We acknowledge a number of reviews into sports coach mentorship are present within the literature (e.g. Bloom, 2013;Fraina & Hodge, 2020;Jones et al, 2009;Lefebvre et al, 2020), however, these tend to focus on wider research from broader domains (e.g. health care, education, and business), merely highlighting 'take home messages' for the sports coaching field to contemplate.…”

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“…Consequently, mentoring has been adopted as a professional learning strategy for practitioners across health care, education, and business domains (Lefebvre et al, 2020), with organisations using the practice as a "vehicle for handing down knowledge, maintaining culture, supporting talent, and securing future leadership" (Darwin, 2000, p. 197). Indeed, the associated value of mentoring combined with its potential to situate learning in context has seemingly led to the inclusion of, and advocation for, mentoring programmes within sports coaching (Bloom, 2013;Fraina & Hodge, 2020).…”

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Reviewing the sports coach mentoring literature: a look back to take a step forward

Leeder

Sawiuk

2020

Sports Coaching Review

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This article takes a look back, in order to take a step forward, for sports coach mentorship within both academia and practice. Consequently, this article aims to review the contemporary trends within the sports coach mentoring literature and beyond to build upon earlier foundations.Throughout, four areas of significance are identified: (1) A sociocultural analysis of sports coach mentorship; (2) multiple-mentors and developmental networks; (3) developing sports coach mentors; and (4) gender and role models. The existing literature within each area is introduced, analysed, and critiqued, before an innovative future research agenda is established. Whilst mentorship is regularly utilised within sports coaching, the practice remains undertheorised and conceptually vague.Therefore, this literature review attempts to reconstruct sports coach mentorship by highlighting gaps in our knowledge and instigating innovative research agendas to produce contextually and culturally bound empirical evidence. Thus, this article advances our understanding of mentoring practice within sports coaching.

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“…Mentoring from other experienced coaches is a source that can be both formal and non-formal [ 10 , 11 ], it bridges the gap between theory and practice by the potential learning opportunities that arise from professional experience [ 12 , 13 ]. Based on this, mentoring has been advocated as a method for facilitating coach learning through guidance, observation and reflective practice that enables coaches to acquire and deal with the complexity of sports coaching [ 14 , 15 ]. However, a systematic review that aimed to highlight gaps in the knowledge and research agenda by Leeder and Sawiuk [ 16 ] to update the work of Jones et al [ 12 ], found little evidence of associations between mentoring and changes in coaching practice.…”

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“…Jowett [ 20 ] claims that this dyad is “… the medium that motivates, assures, satisfies, comforts, and supports coaches and athletes to enhance their sport experience, performance, and well-being” (p. 154), and that “… the quality of the relationship can function as a barometer of coaching effectiveness” (p. 156). In Jowett’s [ 14 , 21 ] 3 + 1 Cs model of the coach-athlete relationship, closeness (i.e., an emotional connection reflected in trust and respect), commitment (i.e., motivation to maintain a close relationship over time) and complementarity (i.e., behaviour reflected in interactions that are responsive, relaxed and friendly) constitute the first three Cs. The last C, co-orientation , refers to the degree of interconnection between the coach’s and athlete’s perception of the relational quality.…”

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Effects of a Mentor Program for Coaches on the Coach-Athlete Relationship

Haugan

Moen

Østerås

et al. 2021

Sports

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The present study was designed to explore the effects of a one-year coach education program on coaches’ perceptions of their communication skills and co-orientation of their coach-athlete relationships. The study was designed with an experimental group and a control group. The experiment group consisted of 66 coaches (and 295 athletes) who received formal mentoring and the control group consisted of 41 coaches (and 148 athletes) who did not receive any mentoring. Data were analysed using structural equation modelling with autoregressive cross-lagged analysis. Results from the self-reported questionnaire at pre-test and post-test showed that the reciprocity of the coach-athlete relationships was not statistically significant. However, coaches’ experience of change in attention skills from the pre-test to the post-test positively predicted changes in their own perception of the coach-athlete relationship, whereas this association was not significant in the athletes’ perceptions. Moreover, the coach education programme increased coaches’ perception of their relational bonds with their athletes, but this increase did not correspond with an increase in athletes’ perception of the relational bonds with their coach. Practical implications and suggestions for further research are discussed in light of these findings.

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Mentoring relationships among athletes, coaches, and athletic administrators: A literature review

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

Elite sport hubs during COVID-19: The job demands and resources that exist for athletes

Elite sport hubs during COVID-19: The job demands and resources that exist for athletes

Reviewing the sports coach mentoring literature: a look back to take a step forward

Effects of a Mentor Program for Coaches on the Coach-Athlete Relationship

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