Department of Psychology, ICN Business School, Greece
Research
Transformational Coaching, parent-child Relationship, and the psychosocial and team outcomes of young talented athletes.
Author(s): Nikos Lambridis*
This study introduces for the first time in Coaching Football the term Transformational Coaching. It investigated perceptions of coach, parent, and peer motivational influences on athlete development in the past. Coach transformational leadership behaviors, perceived competence, intrinsic motivation, enjoyment, team cohesion, and collective efficacy were all assessed in adolescent soccer players, coaches, parents (N=312). Transformational Coaching was found to be more influential than peer leadership in predicting individual outcomes and collective efficacy. Transformational Coaching was also found to be strongly related to social cohesion of talented players, as well as task cohesion. Participants perceived each social agent to play a role in each of the following motivationally relevant categories of social agent influence: Relationship factors; interpersonal interactions; developme.. View More»
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