Ms. Price et Mr. Weiss, Relationships among coach burnout, coach behaviors, and athletes' psychological responses, SPORT PSYCH, 14(4), 2000, pp. 391-409
The purpose of the present study was to examine the relationship among coac
h burnout, coaching behaviors, and athletes' psychological responses using
Chelladurai's (1980, 1990) multidimensional model of leadership as a theore
tical framework. Two questions were addressed: (a) Do coaches who vary in l
evel of burnout differ in the behaviors athletes perceive they exhibit? (b)
Are coaching behaviors related to athletes' enjoyment, perceived competenc
e, anxiety, and burnout? A sample of 193 female soccer players and 15 head
coaches of high school teams completed measures of the constructs of intere
st. Coaches higher in emotional exhaustion were perceived by their teams as
providing less training and instruction and social support and making fewe
r autocratic and greater democratic decisions. For the second question, ath
letes' perceptions of greater training and instruction, social support, pos
itive feedback, democratic decisions, and less autocratic style were relate
d to more positive (i.e., perceived competence, enjoyment) and less negativ
e (i.e., anxiety, burnout) psychological outcomes.