the purpose of this research was to study the relationship between conflict management strategies and emotional intelligence (ei) of sport coaches in east azerbaijan province. according to the statistical population of this research that consisted of all sport coaches in east azerbaijan province (n=750), 257 coaches were evaluated according to morgan table with two questionnaires including robb...

Recent academic literature on sport coaching has acknowledged the importance of domain specificity, emphasising the significance of participant motives and the coaching environment in determining appropriate coaching practice. Although children’s motivations for taking part in sport have been a popular research area, there has been no attempt, until now, to review the research literature that s...

This study explores coaches’ and athletes’ subjective views about what they think are expected fromcoaches in sport. A Q-sample of 36 different opinions about different expectations about coaches’ behaviors, and how these expectations affect their athletes’ motivation, performance, focus and emotions, was presented to 23 coaches and 59 athletes at a Norwegian high school specialized for sports....

CONTEXT Many coaches, parents, and children believe that the best way to develop elite athletes is for them to participate in only 1 sport from an early age and to play it year-round. However, emerging evidence to the contrary indicates that efforts to specialize in 1 sport may reduce opportunities for all children to participate in a diverse year-round sports season and can lead to lost develo...

Introduction Limited effort has been invested in understanding doping Paralympic sport. The limited evidence that exists suggests factors influencing parasport are similar to Olympic However, based on the design and nature of previous studies, where methods have mostly qualitative data prevalence numbers, further research is warranted extend findings. Methods Informed by current from sport, we ...

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...

While football remains mostly a sport associated with men and national identity, it has also become popular for women girls in Western countries. Despite this success, however, the coaching of strongly male dominated occupation. In paper, we explored how 10 elite coaches teams negotiated resisted entanglement techniques biopower, sovereign disciplinary power within sport. The results revealed t...

I n recent times, we have seen widespread publicity given to domestic child abuse in the lay press, and there is every reason to suspect that sport is not immune from this problem. In Australia for example, a well known international cricket umpire was recently jailed for child sex allegations made when he was a schoolteacher. In 2001, a UK based tennis coach was jailed for seven years (with a ...

There is increasing interest in the role sports coaches are expected to play supporting mental health of elite and sub-elite athletes. This paper presents first single-sport, mixed-methods, study UK athletics coaches’ literacy (MHL). We extend previous quantitative survey-based studies by incorporating qualitative lived experiences into analysis. explore knowledge illness, experience training, ...

The purpose of this study was to analyse Portuguese coaches' perceptions of, and preferences for, knowledge sources as related to professional background; namely academic education level, coach education level and coaching experience. The study's participants comprised 336 Portuguese coaches from twenty-two sports. A questionnaire was used to identify coaches' demographic characteristics and re...