Coaches’ learning and sustainability in high performance sport

Sport Commitment in High Perfomance Basketball Coaches

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...

Exploring predictors of sport commitment in coaches

..............................................................................2 DECLARATION..........................................................................3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS..............................................................4 TABLE OF CONTENTS.................................................................5 INTRODUCTION.........................................................

Coaches’ Experiences Learning and Applying the Content of a Humanistic Coaching Workshop in Youth Sport Settings

The purpose of this study was to develop and deliver a humanistic coaching workshop, as well as investigate coaches’ perceptions of this workshop and their experiences using humanistic coaching. Participants were 12 coaches of grade 7–11 basketball teams from schools in low socioeconomic communities in a major Canadian city. Data were collected using semistructured interviews and personal journ...

A triadic comparison of the use of observational learning amongst team sport athletes, coaches, and officials

Objective: The purpose of this research was to investigate patterns of observational learning implemented by team sport athletes, coaches, and officials. Method: The Functions of Observational Learning Questionnaire (FOLQ; Cumming, Clark, Ste-Marie, McCullagh, & Hall, 2005) was administered to 240 participants (20 athletes, coaches, and officials from basketball, baseball, ice hockey and soccer...

An Assessment of High School Athletes’ and Coaches’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Conerning Sport-related Concussion