background: promotion of health is the fundamental strategy for controlling risk factors of unhealthy lifestyle and consequently improving health of individuals and society. Health professions play a leading role in this process. Aim: the purpose of our empirical study was to gain an insight of the role of health professions in health and wellbeing of elite athletes. The research was based on t...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of the study was to assess the self-perceived knowledge and skills of Japanese job coaches and to examine whether their knowledge and skills differed across employment settings. PARTICIPANTS The 479 job coaches at Work Support Centers or Work Support Agencies comprised the study population. METHODS A Japanese version of the 80-item Self-Assessment for Students or Couns...

In this study, we examined the stressors experienced by British tennis-parents. The parents (n = 123) completed an extensive survey focused on the internal and external demands that they had encountered through having a child compete in the sport. The survey consisted of open-ended questions related to competition, coaching, organizational, personal, and developmental issues. Inductive and dedu...

This study analyzed soccer players' retention of coaches' feedback during training sessions. We intended to determine if the retention of information was influenced by the athletes' personal characteristic (age, gender and the sports level), the quantity of information included in coach's feedback (the number of ideas and redundancy), athletes' perception of the relevance of the feedback inform...

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...

24 In this cross-sectional study, we examined a mediational model whereby transformational 25 leadership is related to task cohesion via sacrifice. Participants were 381 American (Mage = 26 19.87, SD = 1.41) Division I university athletes (188 males, 193 females) who competed in a 27 variety of sports. Participants completed measures of coach transformational leadership, 28 personal and teammat...

24 In this cross-sectional study, we examined a mediational model whereby transformational 25 leadership is related to task cohesion via sacrifice. Participants were 381 American (Mage = 26 19.87, SD = 1.41) Division I university athletes (188 males, 193 females) who competed in a 27 variety of sports. Participants completed measures of coach transformational leadership, 28 personal and teammat...

We analyze the promotions and firings of NCAA Division 1 college basketball and college football coaches to assess whether these coaches are rewarded for the academic performance of their players in promotion and retention decisions. We find that an increase in Academic Progress Rate, as measured by the NCAA, for a college team in either sport significantly reduces the probability that the coac...

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...