47 The article is based on the common idea in sport psychology that the coach, besides his/her athletes, is the key figure in sports. Our goal was to test this idea in Slovene sport and examine the way Slovene coaches work with their athletes. Systematic study should result in scientific insight on the role and work of coaches in sport, and provide relevant information about importance of coach...

the purpose of this study was to investigate the empowerment indices in sport coaches in urmia. this research was a survey and a field study. multistage random sampling was used. the data were gathered by a standard questionnaire of empowerment index evaluation (d. scott & t. jaffe): the reliability = 94.2% and validity = 90.5%. the sample included 155 male and female sport coaches who were sel...

The aim was to describe development of a process-oriented instrument designed to assess the golf swing and putt stroke, and to assess the instrument's discriminative validity in terms of age and reliability (intra-rater and re-test). A Delphi consultation (with golf industry professionals and researchers in movement skill assessment) was used to develop an assessment for each skill based on exi...

The coach's actual conduct is thought to be influenced directly by his or her personal characteristics, such as age, gender, appearance, skill, and experience, well the demands of situation. However, behavior set both organisational structure environment, include factors including sport, team size level, role variability, playing conditions. This study aims investigate on different perceived co...

The potential benefits of children's engagement in sport for their psychological, social, and physical health are well established. Yet children may also experience psychological and social impairments due, in part, to a variety of detrimental coach behaviors. In the current study, we proposed and tested a conditional process model of children's self-reported behavioral engagement and behaviora...

This study investigated the relationship of self-efficacy and coping styles to stress and burnout in selected coaches sports in Tehran. Accordingly, 450 coaches were randomly selected on the base of Morgan table. Data gathered from the questionnaires as follows; a) coping style of stress (Dadsetan et al., 2009, α=0/74), b) self efficacy (Schwartz et al., 1995, α=0/82) and, c) Burnout Inventory ...