The relationship between coach leadership, the coach–athlete relationship, team success, and the positive developmental experiences of adolescent soccer players

Abstract

The relationship between coach leadership, the coach-athlete relationship, team success, and the positive developmental experiences of adolescent soccer players

Learning cultures and cultural learning in high-performance sport: opportunities for sport pedagogues

“…Jones' (2009) work, in particular, recommends a pedagogical turn to coaching, one that involves coaches caring for their athletes beyond the teaching of sport-specific skills. Indeed, individual consideration, intellectual stimulation and appropriate role modelling have been found to stimulate positive youth development (Vella, Oades, and Crowe 2012). However, we contend that a commodity-driven orientation is a significant part of contemporary high-performance sport and that it must be acknowledged if one is to look at learning cultures and learning in high-performance sport.…”

Exploring the relationship between the relative age effect and youth development among male house league ice hockey players

“…Other research has found coach autonomy support to be associated with personal and social skills, cognitive skills, goal setting, and initiative (Cronin & Allen, 2015). Research conducted on adolescent soccer players found that team success had no correlation with the overall developmental experience; however, coach transformational leadership behavior and the coach-athlete relationship appeared to be the best predictors of athletes' positive developmental experiences such as goal setting, initiative, and personal and social skills (Vella, Oades, & Crowe, 2013).…”

A Pilot Test of Transformational Leadership Training for Sports Coaches: Impact on the Developmental Experiences of Adolescent Athletes

“…According to Weiss [8], sport provides a set of naturally occurring opportunities of which adult leaders may use to facilitate the acquisition of developmental assets. Vella et al [9] have also inferred that both "winning" and "losing" in youth sports provide an opportunity for developmental gains to be promoted by the coach.…”

“…Cross-sectional research demonstrates that the positive developmental experiences of young athletes are associated with coaches' transformational leadership behaviour [9]. In addition, a test of transformational leadership theory amongst adolescent athletes has shown that coach transformational leadership behaviour predicts athlete outcomes at both an individual and team level [15].…”

“…Given that the extent of the literature pertaining to transformational leadership in youth sports is theoretical [21], cross-sectional [9,[15][16][17] and qualitative [19], there exists a need to extend this research by piloting a transformational leadership intervention for coaches. Using a quasi-experimental design, the purpose of this study is to strengthen the associations made between transformational leadership behaviour and the positive developmental experiences of adolescent athletes by piloting a transformational leadership training program for coaches.…”