Taiwanese Athletes' Perceived Experience of Great Coaching

• Main Authors: Chiu, Shih-Han, 邱詩涵
• Other Authors: Lin, Jung-Charng
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2014
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28042601613326927870

博士 === 中國文化大學 === 體育學系運動教練碩博士班 === 102 === Most of the research on coaching effectiveness has examined the behaviors, cognitions, and athlete preference and satisfaction of winning coaches and which resulted the unsatisfied knowledge. Coaching is a dynamic, complex and confusing practice. It was difficult to present the improvising structure by positive perspectives. Therefore, the qualitative design was used in the research in order to extend the concept of coaching effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to explore athletes’ perceptions of great coaching. From their perceptions, an operational definition of great coaching was developed in the study. Phenomenology was life experience. For this reason, existential phenomenology was used to be the theoretical paradigms and perspectives. Participants were recruited via snowball sampling with 18 athletes, who has participated Olympic Games, Asian Games, Universiade or professional level. Data were collected via interviews and phenomenological analysis was used to analyze research data. The results were that the essence of great coaching was structured by six dimensions: coach attributes, environment, system, relationships, coaching actions, and influences. Athletes Perceived coaching actions and influences were stand out from Great Coaching. At the same time, these dimensions serve as constants in the background of athlete experiences: Once a strong coach-athlete relationship is established and athletes understand their coach, the environment, and the system. Finally, a definition of great coaching was developed from the athletes’ perceptions: great coaching as the application of coaching actions with great coach attributes in the environment and system of a strong coach-athlete relationship of trust, to assist your players to achieve their potential and to the maximum peak.