| Literature DB >> 28572775 |
Adam R Nicholls1, Keith Earle1, Fiona Earle1, Daniel J Madigan2.
Abstract
All football teams that compete within the F. A. Premier League possess an academy, whose objective is to produce more and better home-grown players that are capable of playing professionally. These young players spend a large amount of time with their coach, but little is known about player's perception of the coach-athlete relationship within F. A. Premier League Academies. The objectives of this study were to examine whether perceptions of the coach-athlete relationship changed over six months and if the coach-athlete relationship predicted self-reported goal achievement among F. A. Premier League academy players. This study included cross-sectional (n = 104) and longitudinal (n = 52) assessments, in which academy soccer players completed a measure of the coach-athlete relationship and goal achievement across either one or two time periods. The cross-sectional data were subjected to bivariate correlations, whereas the longitudinal data were analyzed using multiple regressions. Perceptions of the coach-athlete relationship remained stable over time. The coach-athlete relationship predicted the achievement of mastery goals six months later. Enhancing the quality of the coach-athlete relationship among elite adolescent athletes appears to be a suitable way of maximizing mastery achievement goals, particularly among developmental athletes who participate in team sports.Entities:
Keywords: coaching; goal attainment; mastery-approach goals; performance; relationships
Year: 2017 PMID: 28572775 PMCID: PMC5435821 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00684
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Front Psychol ISSN: 1664-1078
Descriptive statistics, Cronbach’s alphas, and bivariate correlations.
| Variable | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| (1) Coach–athlete | ||||||||||||||||
| (2) Closeness | 0.95∗∗∗ | |||||||||||||||
| (3) Commitment | 0.89∗∗∗ | 0.81∗∗∗ | ||||||||||||||
| (4) Complementarity | 0.90∗∗∗ | 0.79∗∗∗ | 0.67∗∗∗ | |||||||||||||
| (5) Achievement | 0.19 | 0.14 | 0.17 | 0.22∗ | ||||||||||||
| (6) Mastery achievement | 0.33∗∗ | 0.24∗ | 0.27∗∗ | 0.39∗∗∗ | 0.69∗∗∗ | |||||||||||
| (7) Self-referenced achievement | 0.16 | 0.11 | 0.19 | 0.15 | 0.88∗∗∗ | 0.42∗∗∗ | ||||||||||
| (8) Normative achievement | 0.08 | 0.06 | 0.03 | 0.12 | 0.89∗∗∗ | 0.57∗∗∗ | 0.62∗∗∗ | |||||||||
| (9) Coach–athlete | 0.79∗∗∗ | 0.73∗∗∗ | 0.72∗∗∗ | 0.63∗∗∗ | 0.21 | 0.40∗∗ | 0.15 | 0.10 | ||||||||
| (10) Closeness | 0.71∗∗∗ | 0.71∗∗∗ | 0.62∗∗∗ | 0.55∗∗∗ | 0.22 | 0.42∗∗ | 0.15 | 0.10 | 0.93∗∗∗ | |||||||
| (11) Commitment | 0.73∗∗∗ | 0.69∗∗∗ | 0.73∗∗∗ | 0.51∗∗∗ | 0.18 | 0.33∗ | 0.16 | 0.06 | 0.93∗∗∗ | 0.78∗∗∗ | ||||||
| (12) Complementarity | 0.75∗∗∗ | 0.62∗∗∗ | 0.65∗∗∗ | 0.70∗∗∗ | 0.18 | 0.36∗∗ | 0.10 | 0.11 | 0.93∗∗∗ | 0.77∗∗∗ | 0.81∗∗∗ | |||||
| (13) Achievement | 0.26 | 0.23 | 0.19 | 0.25 | 0.65∗∗∗ | 0.39∗∗ | 0.59∗∗∗ | 0.61∗∗∗ | 0.40∗∗ | 0.35∗ | 0.38∗∗ | 0.38∗∗ | ||||
| (14) Mastery achievement | 0.48∗∗∗ | 0.41∗∗ | 0.42∗∗ | 0.44∗∗ | 0.51∗∗∗ | 0.53∗∗ | 0.39∗∗ | 0.45∗∗ | 0.58∗∗∗ | 0.55∗∗∗ | 0.52∗∗∗ | 0.53∗∗∗ | 0.80∗∗∗ | |||
| (15) Self-referenced achievement | 0.19 | 0.20 | 0.11 | 0.19 | 0.51∗∗∗ | 0.18 | 0.55∗∗∗ | 0.44∗∗ | 0.35∗ | 0.31∗ | 0.35∗ | 0.31∗ | 0.91∗∗∗ | 0.61∗∗∗ | ||
| (16) Normative | 0.09 | 0.07 | 0.04 | 0.12 | 0.69∗∗∗ | 0.40∗∗ | 0.57∗∗∗ | 0.71∗∗∗ | 0.19 | 0.13 | 0.17 | 0.22 | 0.90∗∗∗ | 0.62∗∗∗ | 0.71∗∗∗ | |
| 67.05 | 25.48 | 17.31 | 24.26 | 63.89 | 23.48 | 19.90 | 20.51 | 66.04 | 24.85 | 17.42 | 23.77 | 62.98 | 22.53 | 20.08 | 20.37 | |
| 8.42 | 3.35 | 2.79 | 3.06 | 9.91 | 2.23 | 5.01 | 4.45 | 7.41 | 2.87 | 2.44 | 2.70 | 9.90 | 6.69 | 4.64 | 3.90 | |
| Cronbach’s alpha | 0.93 | 0.90 | 0.78 | 0.76 | 0.90 | 0.73 | 0.89 | 0.91 | 0.93 | 0.90 | 0.80 | 0.79 | 0.93 | 0.73 | 0.93 | 0.91 |
Summary of regression analyses predicting goal achievement at T2.
| Goal achievement T2 | Mastery T2 | Self-referenced T2 | Normative T2 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Predictors at T1 | Δ | Δ | Δ | Δ | ||||
| Step 1 | 0.421∗∗∗ | 0.285∗∗∗ | 0.297∗∗∗ | 0.507∗∗∗ | ||||
| DV | 0.65∗∗∗ | 0.53∗∗∗ | 0.55∗∗∗ | 0.71∗∗∗ | ||||
| Step 2 | 0.011 | 0.059∗ | 0.010 | 0.001 | ||||
| DV | 0.62∗∗∗ | 0.39∗∗ | 0.53∗∗∗ | 0.71∗∗∗ | ||||
| Coach–athlete relationship | 0.11 | 0.28∗ | 0.10 | 0.03 | ||||