Query: sport coach character

title: The impact of humanistic coach training on youth athletes' development through sport
abstract: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the impact of humanistic coach training on athletes' developmental outcomes. A sample of 148 high school student athletes between 12 and 17 years old from low socio economic communities completed questionnaires during their season. The student athletes were divided into an experimental group composed of student athletes of 11 head coaches who participated in a humanistic coach training session, and a comparison group composed of student athletes of 8 untrained coaches. Four questionnaires were used to assess competence, confidence, connection to the coach, and character (prosocial and antisocial behaviours) of the participants. The effects of the humanistic coach training program were assessed using repeated measures analysis of variance models. Results showed that connection to the coach worsened for athletes of untrained coaches. Also, participants from both groups reported an increase in antisocial behaviours at the end of the season, but the athletes of trained coaches reported engaging less frequently in antisocial behaviours compared to athletes of untrained coaches. These findings suggest that teaching humanistic coaching may help practitioners foster positive developmental outcomes in youth sport participants and build positive coach athlete relationships, while also raising awareness to the use of sport as a tool to promote personal growth and development.

title: RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ADOLESCENT ATHLETES' VALUES AND BEHAVIOR IN SPORT AND PERCEIVED COACH'S CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT COMPETENCY
abstract: Research background and hypothesis. This study examined the relations between reported youth athletes' prosocial and antisocial behavior and personal and social factors in sport context and whether these variables accounted for age and sports experience differences in reported behaviors values in sport and perceptions of coach's character development competency. The aim of the research was to determine age and sports experience differences in manifestation of youth athletes' values in sport, perceived coach's character development competency and behaviors that occur in sport, and to examine interrelations between these variables.  The sample included 201 athletes recruited from Kaunas and Alytus sports schools. The participants completed the Youth Sport Value Questionnaire 2 (YSVQ 2 Lee et al. 2008) the Prosocial and Antisocial Behavior in Sport Scale (PABSS Kavussanu, Boardley, 2009) and adapted version of the Coaching Efficacy Scale (CES Feltz et al. 1999)  The positive correlation between values in sport, perceived coach's character development competency and prosocial behavior of athletes were established. These values also had negative correlations with antisocial behavior whereas status values correlated negatively with prosocial behavior. Coach's character development competency was perceived stronger by younger athletes (p 0.05) Competence values were more important to these athletes compared to older ones (p 0.05)  Research revealed the importance of moral and competence values for adolescent athlete's moral behavior in sport. Perceived character development effectiveness positively correlated with athletes' prosocial behavior; however, it was unrelated to antisocial behavior. Thus, perceiving the coach as being effective in instilling an attitude of good moral character may lead to an increased frequency of desirable behaviors but does not appear to have any effect on antisocial conduct. It was found that athletes' prosocial acts were more frequent than antisocial ones, however, more experienced athletes displayed more frequent antisocial behavior to the teammates. These findings are consistent with the previous presumption that low frequency of engagement in antisocial behaviors does not necessarily mean that one frequently engages in prosocial action, or vice versa.

title: A season long examination of the intervention tone of coach athlete interactions and athlete development in youth sport
abstract: Coaches are a primary influence on athletes' development in youth sport (Horn, 2008) However, the intervention tone of coaches' behaviour has not been directly observed. The purpose of this study was to examine associations between the intervention tone exhibited by youth sport coaches and athletes' individual developmental trajectories over the course of a season. Design Short term longitudinal study with behavioural observation.  Fifty five athletes and their coaches from five youth volleyball teams were observed at three time points, and the intervention tone of interactive behaviour was systematically coded and organized by coach athlete dyad. Athletes completed measures of the 4C's of athlete development (competence, confidence, connection, character) at each time point, which were used to create individualized developmental trajectories. Person centred analyses were used to examine associations between athletes' developmental trajectories and their unique interactive experiences with their coach.  Cluster analysis revealed the presence of three distinct clusters based on athletes' developmental trajectories: 1) high and increasing, 2) low and decreasing, and 3) moderate and maintaining, with athletes from each team distributed across clusters. Analysis of dyadic interaction profiles revealed significant differences in interactive behaviour between clusters.  Results suggest that differences in coach athlete interactive experiences are associated with different developmental trajectories over the course of a season, even for athletes working with the same coach, highlighting the individualized nature of coaches' influence on young athletes. Practical implications for coaches include a critical awareness of their unique interactive relationship with each athlete independently, as well as the importance of fostering these relationships with regard to young people as more than just athletes.

title: Coaching competency and trust in coach in sport teams
abstract: This study examines the relationship between coaching competency as evaluated by athletes and their perceptions of trust in their coaches. The authors hypothesize that athletes' evaluation of four dimensions of coaching competency is positively related to their trust in their coaches, and that this relationship is stronger at the team level than at the individual level. In total, 438 basketball players (251 males and 187 females) from 34 teams completed the Coaching Competency Scale (CCS) and the trust in the coach questionnaire during the postseason. The hypotheses were tested through hierarchical linear modeling. The analyses revealed that individual and group level evaluations of the four dimensional CCS (motivation, game strategy, technique, and character building competencies) positively predicted trust in the coach; furthermore, group level coaching competency was the primary contributor to this relationship. Therefore, improving the psychological and tactical skills of coaches and their skill detection abilities and instruction at training together with a positive attitude toward sports may help improve the trust of athletes in their coaches.

title: Defining and Measuring Character in Sport From a Multidimensional Perspective
abstract: This paper extends the discussion by Shigeno and colleagues (2019, The Coach's Role in Creating Moral Group Norms in Youth Sports. International Sport Coaching Journal) who emphasized the importan.

title: Character Development Through Youth Sport: High School Coaches' Perspectives about a Character based Education Program
abstract: This study examined high school sports coaches' perspectives about a character based coach education workshop designed to promote positive coaching practices and transform the culture of youth sports. Fifteen coaches M age 42.07, SD 14.62, 73.3% male) provided feedback about Positive Coaching Alliance's (PCA) "Double Goal Coach" training program and what aspects of the workshop they applied to their coaching practices. Results indicated that coaches believed that participation in PCA workshops contributed to the value coaches attributed to individuals, to coach oriented character development, and to positive relationships within youth sports. The coaches also suggested changes in future PCA workshops. These findings provide preliminary evidence that coaches' incorporate skills acquired through participation in character based coach education programs. We discuss implications for coaches and athletes, and for policies aimed at enhancing positive youth attributes developed through sport.

title: Being a good sport: players' uptake to coaches' joking in interviews for the youth national team
abstract: This paper draws on detailed analyses of authentic coach athlete interviews during the final selection camp for the Swedish national youth team in hockey. The audio recorded interviews between the coaches and the individual players (20 players and two national team coaches) covered various issues, involving both the individual players' goal setting and sports character, as displayed in his self presentation during the interview. If the presumptive elite level player presented a vague or low goal or an overly humble self presentation, this was contested by the coach through jokes, laughter or ironic teasing. Such conversational joking exchanges formed part of each coach's toolkit for giving critical feedback to interview questions. In their uptake to the coaches playful corrections, the players were expected to engage in po faced receipt or to laugh along. The selection involved character contests both on the ice rink and in the talk in interaction that formed part of the performance appraisal procedure.

title: AN ANALYSIS OF RACISM IN SPORT THROUGH DON HASKINS CHARACTER IN GLORY ROAD MOVIE
abstract: The research was focused on the historical event of a basketball coach who formed a basketball team with African American players as majority. The main purpose of this research was to determine the factors that influenced Don Haskins to recruit African Americans to Texas Western University in Texas and to identify the roles of sport in racial issue. The research method applied was library research. The analysis was done by taking some dialogues, observing the character of Don Haskins, and applied the Critical Race Theory. As the result of the analysis, it is implied that the Don Haskins recruits African American players because of his childhood experience and his ethic code of coaching. Besides that, the university also does not have enough budgets to recruit talented White American players. Sport was identified to have two roles in racial issue. Racism did occur in sport, but the sport itself was considered as a medium to decrease racism of minorities. (SO)

title: Journal Article Review: I think, therefore I am. a coach. Examining sport coaching philosophy.
abstract: Just how important is it for a coach to have a philosophy? Is a coaching philosophy even necessary? Will a coaching philosophy improve performance or provoke a lifelong commitment to sport, or develop character, etc? Unfortunately, these are questions that have not received a great deal of attention in coaching discourse (Jones, Armour and Potrac, 2003) This is hardly surprising given that in terms of sporting success, the contribution of the coach may be generally overlooked in the media and by academics, supporters and such like. As the authors of

title: Development of coach competency evaluation instrument of football school
abstract: The research aimed at developing the coach competency evaluation instrument of Football School (CCIFS) The research method by using Research and Development (R&D) The instrument development is begun with literature review and empirical investigation. Empirical investigation by using nominal group technique (NGT) by collecting the coach competency items come from the senior coach. Then the literature review results and empirical investigation results compiled through item pool and screening of item pool (Q sort) Validity and reliability of instrument were tested by factor analysis. The development results of CCI FS obtained 33 instrument items that formed five competency dimensions: communication, leadership, coaching, sport specific and character; validity (corrected item total correlation) with score range of .296 .575, and CCI FS reliability with cronbach's alpha score of 0,919.  Coach competency instrument of football school (CCI FS) that is developed can be used to evaluate the coach competency of football school validly and reliably.