| Owner: |
Tsz Lun Chu
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| Owner Email: |
t_chu2@uncg.edu
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| Paper Title: |
Female Coaches Seem More Disempowering Than Male Coaches: High School Female Athletes' Perspective
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| Session Title: |
Considering Sport, Activity, and Exercise in Youth Education
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| Paper Type: |
Paper
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| Presentation Date: |
4/18/2020
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| Presentation Location: |
Online
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| Descriptors: |
Gender Studies, Motivation, Sport
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| Methodology: |
Mixed Method
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| Author(s): |
Tsz Lun Chu, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay; Tao Zhang, University of North Texas
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| Unit: |
SIG-Research Focus on Education and Sport
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| Abstract: |
As limited evidence is available regarding the relationships between the gender of the coach and perceived motivational climates, this mixed-methods study aimed to (a) quantitatively compare the five dimensions of perceived empowering (task-involving, autonomy-supportive, and socially supportive) and disempowering (ego-involving and controlling) climates across the gender of the coach, and (b) qualitatively explore the coaching behaviors associated with various motivational climate dimensions. Participants were 196 female athletes (Mage = 15.34), from three high schools in the southwestern U.S., who completed a survey on perceived coach-created motivational climates. Focus group interviews were conducted with a subsample of 13 athletes. Both univariate and content analyses suggest that high school female athletes perceive female coaches as more ego-involving and controlling than male coaches.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/1580501
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