BACKGROUND Simple observational assessment of movement is a potentially low-cost method for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury screening and prevention. Although many individuals utilize some form of observational assessment of movement, there are currently no substantial data on group skill differences in observational screening of ACL injury risk. PURPOSE/HYPOTHESIS The purpose of this...

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...

This paper overviews the role of the sports coach is hugely varied, but it mainly involves: Teaching rules, techniques and tactics to beginners. Providing an objective view to help teams and individuals enhance performance. Helping those involved in top level sport deal with enormous pressures faced in a highly competitive environment. Through expert tutoring, constructive criticism, motivation...

PURPOSE It has been suggested that programs regarding early identification and prevention of eating disorders (ED) among athletes are unlikely to succeed without their coaches' endorsement and participation. Therefore, we developed a 1-yr intervention aiming to prevent the development of ED among adolescent elite athletes by targeting athletes and their coaches. The separate part of the interve...

Objective: The purpose of the present study was to investigate the empathic accuracy of coach–athlete dyads participating in team and individual sports. Method: An adaptation of Ickes’s [2001. Measuring empathic accuracy. In J. A. Hall & F. J. Bernieri (Eds.), Interpersonal sensitivity (pp. 219–242). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates] unstructured dyadic interaction paradigm was used to a...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the leadership power perceptions of soccer coaches and soccer players according to their educational levels. Data were collected from 165 male soccer coaches and 870 male soccer players. Adapted versions of the "Power in Soccer Questionnaire-Other", the "Power in Soccer Questionnaire-Self" and an "information form" were used for data collection, and coll...

Objectives: This study examined the construction of the motivational climate surrounding elite sports performers by investigating the behaviours of coaches, peers and parents that were perceived to be motivationally relevant by elite athletes. Design: Qualitative e inductive. Method: Twenty-eight national, international and world-class athletes (15e29 years old) took part in semi-structured foc...

PURPOSE The purpose of the study was to explore the perspectives and roles of peer coaches, who are patients with diabetes trained to provide diabetes self-management support (DSMS) to other patients. METHODS A focus group and 17 qualitative semi-structured interviews were conducted with community-based peer coaches in San Francisco in order to better understand the process by which these coa...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the associations between burnout, gender, working experience and perceived stress among university coaches in Lithuania. METHODS A random sample of university coaches (N=203) was investigated (136 male and 67 female coaches; 131 coaches, with 10 yr or more work experience, and 72 coaches with less than 10 yr job experience). Two questionnaires-the Coach Burnout Questi...

Coaches of different profiles influence athletes’ sports motivation differently. The aim of this paper was to investigate the coaches’ contribution to the motivational structure of athletes from team sports. Using the coaches’ self-evaluations of goal orientation and intrinsic motivation and the athletes’ evaluations of their coaches’ leadership styles, the two types of coaches were identified....