Building successful student-athlete coach relationships: examining coaching practices and commitment to the coach

Rezania, Davar; Gurney, Robert

doi:10.1186/2193-1801-3-383

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Table 1 Factor analysis

From: Building successful student-athlete coach relationships: examining coaching practices and commitment to the coach

	Commitment	Promoting teamwork	RoleB	T&D	Information sharing
willing to put in a great deal of effort	0.74	0.51	0.67	0.52	0.53
talk up this coach to my friends as a great coach	0.86	0.56	0.52	0.51	0.58
would accept assignments in order to keep playing for my coach	0.79	0.47	0.38	0.45	0.50
my personal values and the coach’s values are similar	0.90	0.59	0.57	0.48	0.66
proud to tell others that I play for my coach	0.91	0.60	0.54	0.53	0.62
My coach really inspires the very best in me	0.91	0.56	0.54	0.48	0.60
glad that I chose to be athlete under the direction of my coach	0.92	0.63	0.52	0.56	0.62
really care about the future of my role under my coach	0.88	0.59	0.58	0.51	0.59
generally feel informed by my coach about changes in my role	0.63	0.59	0.44	0.41	0.89
My coach keeps me informed and up-to-date	0.61	0.58	0.42	0.41	0.87
I know what is expected of me	0.52	0.50	0.45	0.45	0.82
I get adequate feedback from my coach	0.64	0.61	0.48	0.60	0.86
My coach communicates to me frequently and honestly	0.62	0.53	0.46	0.55	0.90
get the information I need to do well	0.49	0.55	0.49	0.41	0.82
adequately complete assigned tasks that my coach gives me	0.53	0.40	0.83	0.34	0.43
fulfill responsibilities specified by my coach	0.60	0.42	0.89	0.38	0.48
perform tasks that are expected of me, by my coach	0.57	0.45	0.87	0.39	0.44
meet formal performance expectations	0.56	0.47	0.87	0.36	0.49
engage in activities assigned by my coach,	0.53	0.35	0.79	0.39	0.43
don’t neglect aspects of a student-athlete that I am obligated to	0.40	0.39	0.78	0.32	0.38
I don’t fail to perform essential duties of a student-athlete	0.40	0.34	0.73	0.26	0.39
My coach systematically trains and develops my student-athletic abilities	0.48	0.47	0.38	0.89	0.45
My coach trains me to gain many skills and abilities	0.50	0.46	0.39	0.90	0.47
I receive from my coach the training I need to do well as a student-athlete	0.51	0.46	0.36	0.89	0.48
I receive the training and support from my coach that I need to perform well as a student-athlete	0.59	0.54	0.39	0.90	0.58
My coach encourages decentralized decision making	0.48	0.79	0.41	0.39	0.51
My coach encourages my team members to decide about sports specific performances and operational problems	0.58	0.82	0.37	0.42	0.52
We (team members) regularly work as a team to perform various tasks	0.48	0.83	0.31	0.42	0.48
My coach promotes teamwork	0.56	0.80	0.48	0.52	0.58

Bolded items indicate factor loadings on the respective constructs.

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