Factors Influencing the Provision of Autonomy-Support

 
 
 
 

Factors Influencing the Provision of Autonomy-Support

Show full item record


Title: Factors Influencing the Provision of Autonomy-Support
Author: Iachini, Aidyn Lorraine
Description: Coaches often serve a profound role in influencing the overall healthy development and well-being of children and youth. However, coaches' capacities to impact the positive development of youth sport participants often derives from their ability to adopt an autonomy-supportive interpersonal style. As such, gaining an understanding of the factors that might serve to facilitate or inhibit coaches' engagement in autonomy-supportive ways with youth is critical. Thus, the purpose of this study was to both develop and empirically test a comprehensive model of factors that might serve to influence coaches' provision of autonomy-support. The factors in the proposed research model included ego-involvement, self-determination, motivation efficacy, game strategy efficacy, technique efficacy, character-building efficacy, perception of athletes' motivation, perception of athletes' competence, external pressure, and stress. The model was tested in a sample of 353 high school coaches of team sports. Data were analyzed using structural equation modeling. The CFA (CMIN/DF=1.86, RMSEA=.049, SRMR=.045, CFI=.957) and the SEM (CMIN/DF=1.83, RMSEA=.049, SRMR=.043, CFI=.954) supported both the measurement and structural models. Two of the ten predictors of autonomy-support were found significant. Specifically, ego-involvement and external pressure were found to negatively predict coaches' engagement in autonomy-supportive behaviors. Overall, the findings from this study suggest that athletic administrators should consider strategies to alleviate the external pressure coaches face during the course of their jobs. In addition, the findings also suggest that athletic administrators might consider providing more education to coaches regarding the impact that ego-involvement may have on their athletes overall healthy development. Implications for research also are discussed.
Permanent Link: http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1218218875
http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/106561
Date: 2008

Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show full item record