Year: 2008
Type: dissertation
Abstract: This thesis involved the construction and testing of an index used to examine \nobservers’ interpretations of how touch enacted by coaches affects athletes in a \ncompetitive sporting context. The results offered statistical support for the Revised \nAthletic Coaching Touch Utility Index (ACTUIR) \nto be comprised of five components \nmeasuring the degree that observers interpret coaching touch to incite athlete’s feelings of \nappreciation, comfort, sexual arousal, skill building, and trust/respect. The findings also \nsuggested that coach-enacted \ntouch influences the emotional and relational messages \nexchanged between coaches and athletes. That is, gender along with the type of touch \nstatistically impacted how observers perceived the messages conveyed from coaches to \nathletes after watching web videos of coaches touching athletes before competitions. \nMoreover, the ACTUIR \nshowed promise as an instrument to examine coaching touch in \na sporting context.
Author: Michael J. Miller
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3131514757