Abstract
Purpose: The objective of this research was to design and develop criteria for selecting freestyle wrestling coaches at international levels and determining the degree of these criteria importance with respect to coaches and wrestlers’ point of view. Material: The research method was of descriptive-survey type. The sample population of this study included 79 freestyle wrestlers and 87 freestyle wrestling coaches selected from 381 participants at wrestling world championship competition in 2013 by classified random sample technique. The measuring instrument was researcher-made questionnaire with 56 variables, evaluated by Delphi method (α = 0.879); internal validity of the questionnaire was assessed by a number of experts who have a long term coaching experience at high levels in wrestling. Statistical methods, used for analysis of data, were descriptive and inferential statistics (Friedman Test, Kruskal-Wallis Test and One Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Test). Results : The results of this study indicated that there was no significant difference among coaches and wrestlers on significance level of 8 main criteria for selecting national freestyle wrestling coaches (P>0.05), but they had some differences in the order of dimensions’ significance. Conclusion: Psychological skills such as Personality traits and characteristics of motivational as well as scientific knowledge and Management Skills have been considered as a very important criterion, so Wrestling Federations should pay considerable attention to these dimensions .
Highlights
The objective of this research was to design and develop criteria for selecting freestyle wrestling coaches at international levels and determining the degree of these criteria importance with respect to coaches and wrestlers’ point of view
When critically evaluating the review of the relevant literature, including studies conducted by the various researchers, the researcher found out that very few studies so far have been devoted to developing criteria for selecting freestyle wrestling coaches at international level
Some of the studies mentioned in the reviewed literature tried to identify characteristics of coaches, the summary of which is as follows: in a study entitled “Springfield High meeting outlines 10 characteristics and traits for new Wildcats boys’ hoops coach” along with a group of 30 people gathered at Springfield High School, to discuss the characteristics and traits they want to see in the Wildcats’ boys’ basketball coach
Summary
The objective of this research was to design and develop criteria for selecting freestyle wrestling coaches at international levels and determining the degree of these criteria importance with respect to coaches and wrestlers’ point of view. In most resources coaching is considered an intensive job and a coach is described as a person who should implement a set of communicative-managerial skills within a wide range of coaching roles [24, 23] In this regard, the selection of people for the post of coach, mainly at national level and based on the use of job-specific criteria has been problematic for federations. When critically evaluating the review of the relevant literature, including studies conducted by the various researchers, the researcher found out that very few studies so far have been devoted to developing criteria for selecting freestyle wrestling coaches at international level. It shows that this topic has not been paid attention to by a lot of researchers. Considering the literature review, the researcher decided to do the study with the following research problem “Developing Criteria for Selecting Free Style Wrestling coaches at International Level”
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