Coaching effectiveness: the coach–athlete relationship at its heart
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Coaching has been often viewed as a context within which coaches operate to largely bring about changes in athlete's performance and wellbeing. One key factor to successful outcomes in coaching is the quality of the relationship between coaches and athletes. In this article, I propose that the coach-athlete relationship is at the heart of coaching. Moreover, the aim is to describe and explain how the quality of the relationship coaches and athletes develop and maintain over the course of their sporting partnership alongside coaches and athletes' knowledge and outcomes, form a system that is capable of defining coaching effectiveness and success.
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The coach-athlete relationship is argued to operate at the heart of coaching.
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- Authors
- Jowett, S.
- Affiliations
- Loughborough University (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Jowett, Sophia
- ORCID
- Jowett, Sophia
- Venue
- Current Opinion in Psychology
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-08
- Volume
- 16
- Pages
- 154-158
- ISSN
- 2352-250X (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2620529264
- Cited by
- 385
- References
- 49
- Citations by year
- 2026: 54 · 2025: 59 · 2024: 61 · 2023: 57 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 46 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 21 · 2018: 14 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 3.33
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- dspace.lboro.ac.uk
- Licence
- cc-by-nc-nd
- www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
- Locations
- Current Opinion in Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Loughborough University Institutional Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Loughborough University Research Repository (Loughborough University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation › Sports and Physical Education Research
- Keywords
- coaching effectiveness, coach-athlete relationship, coaching success, athletic performance, athlete well-being, coach knowledge, relationship quality
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