The relationship between coach feedback and self-perceived sport competence in collegiate male soccer players

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  • 大学生サッカー選手における指導者の言葉がけと自己能力評価の関係性
  • ダイガクセイ サッカー センシュ ニ オケル シドウシャ ノ コトバガケ ト ジコ ノウリョク ヒョウカ ノ カンケイセイ

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<p>Coach feedback significantly contributes to players’sport competence associated with intrinsic motivation. However, limited research has examined this relationship with observation in real sport-coaching settings. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between coach feedback and players’self-perceived sport competence in actual coaching contexts. One coach and 23 players of a male university soccer club participated in this study. The coach’s feedback to the players was recorded for 10 weeks using VTR and, subsequently, categorized into seven domains: (1) positive, (2) negative, (3) instructive, (4) questioning, (5) organizing, (6) friendly, and (7) other. Both before and after receiving coach feedback, players were asked to complete a questionnaire, which consisted of 10 subscales: (1) pass and control decision-making, (2) speed, (3) dribble skill, (4) physical strength, (5) endurance, (6) defense skill, (7) leadership, (8) motivation, (9) long kick skill, (10) heading skill. A significant relationship between soccer players’self-perceived competence and coach feedback was found. The results reveal that frequency of positive feedbacks, such as praise and encouragement, are negatively associated with pass and control decision-making as well as dribble skill. The results further indicate that collegiate male soccer players tend to draw on self-comparison and other internal processes more than positive coach feedback to evaluate their competence. Alternatively, a positive association between negative feedback, such as negative feedbacks, and pass and control decision-making competence was also found. In competitive sports setting, the coach and players would share their common goal as a victory. In this case, players who received negative coach feedback understand the coaches’intent behind that. As a result, negative coach feedback seems to improve players’self-perceived competence in pass and control decision-making areas.</p>

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