Relationships between perceived coach leadership and athletes’ affective states experienced during competition

Abstract

We examined whether coach leadership behaviours predicted intensity and direction of positive and negative affects experiencing during competition controlling for affects experienced within two hours before competition. 296 athletes (33% female and 67% male; Mage = 21.61; SD = 6.32) voluntarily participated in the study. A partial least square path modelling (PLS-PM) approach was used to examine the relationships between the study variables.The results showed that coach social support significant positively predicted direction of negative affects during competition controlling for pre-competitive negative affect direction. Besides, results revealed that coach democratic behaviour marginally and negatively predicted NA direction during competition whereas coach autocratic behaviour marginally and negatively predicted PA intensity. Thus, coaches social support emerged as an adaptive coaching behaviour. The usefulness of a longitudinal approach might reveal the multivariate experience of affects states and the manner to handle them from a coach leadership perspective.

Influence of the Coach’s Method and Leadership Profile on the Positive Development of Young Players in Team Sports

“…The study carried out on the preference of the coach's leadership, among young Badminton athletes, revealed that the autocratic profile is the least requested (Cruz and Kim, 2017). The study by González-García et al (2020), carried out with young athletes of different collective and individual modalities, found significant associations between the autocratic profile and the emotions related to involvement unpleasant with the sport. The study by , carried out with adult athletes of different modalities, found significant associations between the combination of autocratic behavior, training and instruction, positive feedback and social support, with emotions related to happiness and seeking support.…”

“…Environments where young people establish a good quality relationship with coaches and perceive a sense of belonging are associated with greater personal and social development (Bruner et al, 2017;Vella et al, 2013). Coaches who provide social support to athletes generate positive effects of prospective adaptation when dealing with the emotions of competitive sports environments (González-García et al, 2020).…”

“…Leadership in sports environments tends to be discussed in an interactional way; both individual leadership traits and environmental influences must be taken into account (Weinberg and Gould, 2016). For this research, the Chelladurai and Saleh (1980) coach's multidimensional leadership model was chosen, the model was built specifically to assess sporting contexts and adapts to a large number of individual and collective sports (González-García et al, 2020). The model assesses the coach's self-perception of leadership, the athlete's perception and the athlete's preference in relation to the coach's leadership style.…”

“…This study seeks to investigate the relationship between the teaching methods and the leadership profile of the coach and the results in the perception of positive development of young people of different sexes, collective modalities and time of involvement in the sports context. Based on the literature (Cruz and Kim, 2017;2020;Sánchez et al, 2018;Santos et al, 2018), we hypothesized that: (a) the use of small sized games is related to the positive development of practitioners; (b) training and instruction, democratic behaviour, social support and positive feedback, are the coach's leadership behaviour that are associated with positive development; (c) the coach's autocratic behaviour is inversely associated with positive development; and (d) There are differences in the positive development of young people of different sexes, sports and time of involvement in the context.…”

The Influence of the Coach’s Autonomy Support and Controlling Behaviours on Motivation and Sport Commitment of Youth Soccer Players

“…Conversely, negative experiences in this context can lead to early sport drop-out [4]. At this point, the figure of coaches may play a key role in the athlete's learning process, and can be a positive influence on the motivation and sport commitment of young soccer players [5][6][7].…”