Coach-athlete relationship and youth positive experience in sport extracurricular

Authors

  • Mayara Almeida Tavares Centro Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas em Esporte e Exercício Físico (CIPEEF), Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Cáceres, Brasil; Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Física, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá-MT, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2805-4276
  • Sofia Fonseca Faculdade de Educação Física e Desporto, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa, Portugal; Centro de Investigação em Desporto, Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano, Vila Real, Portugal
  • António Lopes Faculdade de Educação Física e Desporto, Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisboa, Portugal; Centro de Investigação em Desporto, Saúde e Desenvolvimento Humano, Vila Real, Portugal https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2828-8475
  • Larissa Rafaela Galatti Faculdade de Ciências Aplicadas de Limeira, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Limeira-SP, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1743-6356
  • Riller Silva Reverdito Centro Interdisciplinar de Pesquisas em Esporte e Exercício Físico, Universidade do Estado de Mato Grosso, Cáceres-MT, Brasil; Programa de Pós-graduação em Educação Física, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá-MT, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0556-9151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/cpd.428691
Keywords: Coach., Positive experience., Young athletes., Extracurricular sport., Sport Pedagogy

Abstract

The quality of the coach-athlete relationship is recognized as a positive experience by young people in sports, which can be decisive for a long-term sports practice. Our aim was to verify if the quality of the relationship coach-athlete is related to the perception of sport as a positive experience by young athletes. The participants are 630 young athletes (350 male; 280 female) in four different team sports: handball (26%), volleyball (25%), futsal (31%) and basketball (18%), participating in state competitions, which are qualifying for the national championship. The athletes' age was 16.06 ± 0.82 years with an average time of practice of 4.48 ± 2.54 years. The data was collected using the Coach-Athlete Relationship (CART-Q Athlete) and the Youth Experience in Sport (YES-Y) questionnaires, both validated for the Portuguese language. Although the literature recognizes the coach-athlete relationship as positive, the results found in this study suggest that the quality of the coach-athlete relationship, by itself, does not influences the perception of sports as a positive experience by young people in sports, in the extracurricular school context.

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Published
01-01-2021
How to Cite
Tavares, M. A. ., Fonseca, S., Lopes, A., Galatti, L. R. ., & Reverdito, R. S. . (2021). Coach-athlete relationship and youth positive experience in sport extracurricular. Sport Psychology Notebooks, 21(1), 146–161. https://doi.org/10.6018/cpd.428691
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Psicología del Deporte