Abstract
This study examined the perception of athletes’ about their coaches’ behavior and skills in terms of knowledge and skills, fairness and coaches’ characteristic features. The research was conducted by using relational survey method. The subjects of the study were 95 females and 180 males from diffrent sports. Both team sports athletes such as football, volleyball, basketball, handball and individual sports such as karate, taekwondo, wrestling, kickboxing voluntarily involved ın the study.Perceived Coach Attitudes and Behaviours Scale (PCABS) which was developed by Uzum et al. (2018) was used to asses percevied coaches’ knowledge and skills, fairness and characteristic features by athletes. The scale was composed of 24 items and 3 sub-dimensions (Characteristic Features, Skills and Knowledge, Fairness). Uzum et al. (2018) reported the internal consistency for subscales of PCABS ranging from .56 and .88. For the purpose of this study the reliability of two sub-scales of the PCABS was examined using Cronbach’s alpha coefficient (α=.83 for knowledge and skills; α=.81for characteristic features of coaches. The data was analyzed by one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA), Tukey’s Post-Hoc Analysis and Pearson Correlation analysis. The level of significance for the study was set at p<.05.The results of the study showed that the sub-dimension of characteristic features of coaches had the highest mean avarage. There were statistically significant differences between male athletes and female athletes in both dimensions of characteristic features of coaches and knowledge and skills (p<.05). Further analysis indicated that females scored higher than males in both dimensions. With regard to the level of coaching either professional or amateur, perception of characteristic features of coaches had higer scores in professional level than amateur (p<.05). Moreover, correlational analysis revealed that there was negatively significant correlation between age of the coaches and knowledge and skills dimension (r= -0.13). On the other hand, the variables such as age of athletes, year of sports performance, level of education, type of sports and the coachs’ gender, marital status, education level of coaches, amount of time spent with the athlete did not show any significant relationship (p>.05).
Highlights
In sports organizations which have humans at their center, mid-level and top-level managers, coaches, trainers and athletes are performing thier duties as amateurs and professionals
Arithmetic means and standart deviations of the answers which the athletes gave to the sub-dimensions of “Perceived Coach Attitudes and Behaviours Scale” were presented at Table 2
According to the analysis -which was conducted to determine how coaches who practices in Turkish sports leagues as amateurs or professionals are perceived by the athletes on characteristic features, knowledge and skills accumulation, and being fair sub-dimensions it can be seen that the highest coach attitudes and behaviours score perceived by the athletes is on Characteristic Features sub-dimension
Summary
In sports organizations which have humans at their center, mid-level and top-level managers, coaches, trainers and athletes are performing thier duties as amateurs and professionals. Athletes are trying to maintain sporting lives under severe conditions and keeping constant communication with their coaches (Uzum, 2017). The coach is being defined as the person who will help the athletes to elevate their performances to the highest level that they can get. The relationship between coach and the athlete creates the opportunity to maximise physical, mental and social/emotional development of the athlete (Krotee & Bucher, 2007). In terms of the career development of the athletes, the coach can be considered as the person who has a fairly important role on improving the potential of the athlete. A coach should be able to apprehend how the athlete feels in a training setting, during and after competition or in cases of winning and loss and always be able to establish a healthy relationship with the athlete (Karakoc et al 2011)
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