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Young athletes’ psychological skills for performance: The role of perceived coaches’ interpersonal styles

Year: 2022

Type: article

Abstract: The aim is to examine the predictive power of perceived coaches’ interpersonal styles and youth athletes’ psychological skills profile, considering the role of gender. One hundred and three athletes (57.30 % male, 42.70 % female) between 15 and 28 years old (M = 20.40, SD = 3.08) participated in the study. Athletes’ psychological skills of motivation, positive coping and attitude control reported higher scores, differences according to gender were found. Likewise, coach’s autonomy support predicted more psychological skills in females, while coach’s controlling behavior predicted inversely positive and negative coping, attentional control and imaginery capability in males.

Source: Revista Interamericana de Psicología/Interamerican Journal of Psychology

DOI: 10.30849/ripijp.v56i3.1350

Authors: María Julia Raimundi, Ignacio Celsi, Carla Otero

Institutions: Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, National University of Mar del Plata, Universidad de Buenos Aires

Language: English

Topic: Sport Psychology and Performance

Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Gender equality

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W4375928236

FWCI: 0.37

Cites: 28

Cited by: 2

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