Dorfzaun, Noam (2023) Distress of Elite Young Football Players in Relation to Perceived Coaching Behaviors. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
The purpose of the present research was to understand the distress of elite young football players as a function of perceived coaching behaviors that may satisfy or frustrate players’ basic psychological needs. This study used existing survey data of 1897 male youth soccer players (M = 15.2 years, SD = 2.3), who all played for elite youth teams in the Netherlands. As expected, perceived supportive coaching behaviors such as perceived developmental support from the coach, perceived autonomy support from the coach, and the perception of coach performance expectations, relate positively to basic need satisfaction and negatively to basic need frustration. Similarly, perceived controlling coaching behaviors like the perception of negative coach reactions relates negatively to basic need satisfaction and positively to basic need frustration. The players’ need satisfaction is negatively related to distress whereas their need frustration is positively related to distress. These findings suggest that coaches should enhance practices by nurturing players’ perceptions of their behaviors to hopefully reduce their distress. Keywords: Perceived coaching behaviors, basic psychological needs, distress, football
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Yperen, N. van and Huijgen, B.C.H. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Talent Development and Creativity (TDC) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Apr 2023 11:37 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2023 11:37 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1873 |
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