This investigation sought to replicate and extend earlier studies of athlete burnout by examining athlete-perceived controlling coaching behaviors and athlete perfectionism variables as, respectively, environmental and dispositional antecedents of athlete motivation and burnout. Data obtained from NCAA Division I swimmers (n = 487) within 3 weeks of conference championship meets were analyzed for this report. Significant indirect effects were observed between controlling coaching behaviors and burnout through athlete perfectionism (i.e., socially prescribed, self-oriented) and motivation (i.e., autonomous, amotivation). Controlling coaching behaviors predicted athlete perfectionism. In turn, self-oriented perfectionism was positively associated with autonomous motivation and negatively associated with amotivation, while socially prescribed perfectionism was negatively associated with autonomous motivation and positively associated with controlled motivation and amotivation. Autonomous motivation and amotivation, in turn, predicted athlete burnout in expected directions. These findings implicate controlling coaching behaviors as potentially contributing to athlete perfectionism, shaping athlete motivational regulations, and possibly increasing athlete burnout.
1This study explored person-related sources of variance in athletes' efficacy beliefs and 2 performances when performing in pairs with distinguishable roles differing in partner 3 dependence. College cheerleaders (n = 102) performed their role in repeated performance 4 trials of two low-and two high-difficulty paired-stunt tasks with three different partners. Data 5 were obtained on self-, other-, and collective efficacies and subjective performances, and 6 objective performance assessments were obtained from digital recordings. Using the Social 7Relations Model framework, total variance in each belief/assessment was partitioned, for 8 each role, into numerical components of person-related variance relative to the self, the other, 9 and the collective. Variance component by performance role by task-difficulty RM-ANOVAs 10 revealed the largest person-related variance component differed by athlete role and increased 11 in size in high-difficulty tasks. Results suggest the extent athlete performance depends on a 12 partner relates to the extent the partner is a source of self-, other-, and collective efficacy. For athlete-athlete dyads, the partner is an important feature of one's performance 3 environment (Kenny, Mohr, & Levesque, 2001). The performance of a given task can feel 4 subjectively easier or more difficult depending upon the partner. For example, as much as an 5American football receiver might be renowned for his ability to make unlikely catches, the 6 possibility of success remains largely dependent on the quarterback being able to deliver the 7 ball within the receiver's "catchable zone." One can imagine, therefore, that the receiver's 8 confidence in successful pass completion on a certain route can vary according to which 9 quarterback is passing the ball. In fact, elite athletes have reported that how a partner 10 performs will influence both personal and team strategies (Wickwire, Bloom, & Loughead, 11 2004). It is reasonable to posit, as a consequence, that each athlete in a performance dyad will 12likely have beliefs about self-performance (e.g., self-efficacy), the partner's performance 13 (e.g., other-efficacy), and their dyadic performance (e.g., collective efficacy) as postulated in 14 theory (Bandura, 1977(Bandura, , 1997 Lent & Lopez, 2002). Unfortunately, how these beliefs are 15 specifically dependent on perceptions of others in performing dyads remains an understudied 16 aspect of team dynamics research (Back & Kenny, 2010; Kenny et al., 2001). The purpose of 17 this study was to examine the person-related sources of variance in self-, other-, and 18 collective efficacy beliefs and performances for dyad athletes performing in a low-versus 19 high-dependence role during both low-and high-difficulty tasks. 20 Efficacy Beliefs 21Self-efficacy refers to the belief in one's own capabilities to execute action (Bandura, 22 1977) and, as indicated by Feltz and Lirgg (2001), is one of the most important psychological 23 constructs thought to affect performance outcomes (for revie...
Both parent and coach leadership behaviours are instrumental to adolescent athlete development.Researchers, however, are yet to examine parent and coach leadership influences simultaneously, and at different stages of adolescents' psychological and physical development. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to understand if the effects of transformational parenting, and transformational coaching on mental toughness and performance varied at different ages during adolescence. Early adolescent (ages 10-14) and late adolescent (ages 15-18) soccer players (n = 334) completed questionnaires assessing their perceptions of their mother's, father's, and coach's transformational leadership, as well as a questionnaire assessing mental toughness. Participants also completed a comprehensive battery of physical fitness tests relevant to soccer. Results indicated that transformational fathering was more strongly associated with levels of mental toughness for early adolescent athletes than it was for later adolescent athletes. Results also indicated that transformational coaching was more strongly associated with physical performance for later adolescent athletes than it was for early adolescents. Overall, these results can inform development models and provide support for future longitudinal studies to assess the impact of parent and coach transformational leadership across different stages of athlete development.
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