Emotional Labor in Sports Coaching: Development of a Model

Lee, Ye Hoon; Chelladurai, Packianathan; Kim, Yu Kyoum

doi:10.1260/1747-9541.10.2-3.561

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“…In recent years, emotional labor has become a variable of interest to coaching science scholars . Revealing the emotionality of professional practice in football coaching, Nelson et al .…”

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Emotional labor and professional practice in sports medicine and science

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Thelwell

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Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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The aim of this study was to explore how sport medicine and science practitioners manage their emotions through emotional labor when engaging in professional practice in elite sport. To address the research aim a semistructured interview design was adopted. Specifically, eighteen professional sport medicine and science staff provided interviews. The sample comprised sport and exercise psychologists (n=6), strength and conditioning coaches (n=5), physiotherapists (n=5), one sports doctor and one generic sport scientist. Following a process of thematic analysis, the results were organized into the following overarching themes: (a) factors influencing emotional labor enactment, (b) emotional labor enactment, and (c) professional and personal outcomes. The findings provide a novel contribution to understanding the professional demands faced by practitioners and are discussed in relation to the development of professional competencies and the welfare and performance of sport medics and scientists.

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“…In recent years, emotional labor has become a variable of interest to coaching science scholars . Revealing the emotionality of professional practice in football coaching, Nelson et al .…”

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“…Despite feelings of inauthenticity, the need to exude desirable emotions in front of athletes to drive performance was prioritized. A quantitative program of research by Lee et al . found surface acting predicted increased psychological costs such as emotional exhaustion, emotional dissonance, and feelings inauthenticity.…”

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Emotional labor and professional practice in sports medicine and science

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Thelwell

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Scandinavian Med Sci Sports

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“…The concept of genuine expression has subsequently been appropriated within sports coaching research (c.f. Lee and Chelladurai, 2016;Lee, Chelladurai and Kim, 2015), and has been negatively related to emotional dissonance and exhaustion.…”

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The cost of caring

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Care in Sport Coaching

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Dave's story is an important narrative that explores how caring for athletes may reflexively influence the personal and social lives of coaches. The narrative begins by revealing some of the ways that coaches may care for athletes and their wider wellbeing. For example, Dave uses basketball as a vehicle to support athletes' education. He also provides pastoral care to athletes with challenging family and social circumstances. This 'labour' can however be time consuming and emotionally intensive. Accordingly, caring for athletes can have significant negative consequences for coaches' own personal and social lives. Readers may recognise Dave's struggles to balance caring for athletes and a passion for sport, with his family commitments. To aid readers in such positions, Dave's story is analysed with reference to sociological literature on emotional labour and psychological literature on burnout. The combination of these literatures is novel, and provides theoretical explanations relevant to the wider coaching community. Practical suggestions for coaches who may find caring to be an exhausting form of labour are also included, as are future implications for coach researchers and educators. Thus, the chapter provides an important case study that can impact coach development and coaching practice.

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“…According to the framework, emotional labour is the combination of emotion requirements of the situation, the one's internal regulation process, and outward emotion performance. That is, these three components are working together to constitute the overall emotional labour construct (Lee & Chelladurai, 2015). Specifically, surface acting and deep acting were identified as different types of internal regulation process.…”

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“…Particularly, emotional intelligence, defined as the individual's ability to perceive, understand, utilize, and manage emotions in the self and others (Mayer & Salovey, 1997) can be a critical construct which has a particular implication to the study of emotional labour (Grandey & Gabriel, 2015;Lee, Chelladurai, & Kim, 2015). According to Opengart (2000), emotional intelligence involves cognitive ability to understand and mange emotions, whereas emotional labour is a behavioral process of expressing emotions outwardly.…”

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Emotional Laour in Teaching Secondary Physical Education

2016

IJKSS

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Background: Teaching physical education is an emotion-laden context which requires physical education teachers to engage in emotional labor in order to foster their well-being, as well as student's outcomes. Objective: The purpose of this study was to investigate the predictability of emotional labour strategies on job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion among secondary physical education teachers in South Korea. Specifically, the four forms of emotional labour (i.e., surface acting, deep acting, genuine positive expression, and genuine negative expression) were hypothesized to have different influences on job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion. Method: A total of 225 fulltime physical education teachers were invited to participate in the paper-pencil survey. The questionnaires contained items measuring the four forms of emotional labour, emotional exhaustion, and job satisfaction which had been modified to fit the physical education setting. Results: The results indicated that surface acting, genuine positive expression, and genuine expression was significantly associated with emotional exhaustion whereas only genuine positive expression was significantly associated with job satisfaction and emotional exhaustion. Finally, emotional exhaustion mediates the relationship between surface acting and job satisfaction, genuine positive expression and job satisfaction, and genuine negative expression and job satisfaction. Conclusion: These results suggest that emotional labour plays a critical role on physical education teachers' well-being and job attitude.

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Emotional Labor in Sports Coaching: Development of a Model

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Emotional labor and professional practice in sports medicine and science

Emotional labor and professional practice in sports medicine and science

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Emotional Laour in Teaching Secondary Physical Education

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