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Antecedents and consequences of perceived autonomy support in elite sport: A diary study linking coaches’ off-job recovery and athletes’ performance satisfaction

Balk, Yannick A., de Jonge, Jan, Geurts, Sabine A.E., Oerlemans, Wido G.M.·2019·Psychology of Sport and Exercise
DOI 10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.04.020
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Objectives To prevent poor health and well-being resulting from the high demands of coaching in elite sport, coaches need to recover during time away from work. This can benefit coaches’ own work experiences as well as their interpersonal behaviour towards athletes. Therefore, the first aim of this study was to investigate within-person associations between elite coaches’ off-job recovery (i.e., physical, cognitive, and emotional detachment from work), physical fatigue, positive affect, work engagement, and perceived autonomy support. The second aim was to investigate within-person associations between elite athletes’ daily perceptions of autonomy support, athlete engagement, and performance satisfaction. Design A one-week daily diary study was conducted. Method Thirty-one elite coaches (30 males, 1 female) and 96 elite athletes (67 males, 29 females) completed online daily surveys across eight consecutive days. Results Multilevel structural equation modelling showed that coaches’ daily off-job physical detachment was negatively related to physical fatigue the next morning, whereas daily off-job emotional detachment was positively related to positive affect the next morning. Physical fatigue and positive affect were positively and negatively related to daily work engagement, respectively, which in turn was positively related to athletes’ perceptions of autonomy support. For athletes, daily athlete engagement fully mediated the relation between daily perceived autonomy support and daily performance satisfaction. Conclusions This study shows that off-job recovery, in terms of physical and emotional detachment from work, is not only important for elite coaches’ health, well-being, and work engagement but also benefits elite athletes’ daily sport experiences.

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  • Reported correlates and antecedents of high wellbeing include psychological detachment from coaching, adequate sleep quality and duration, autonomy, autonomy support, and relatedness.

    “Other reported correlates and antecedents of high wellbeing include psychological detachment from coaching [90], adequate sleep quality and duration [90], autonomy [96], autonomy support [96] and relatedness [96].”

    From The Mental Health of Elite-Level Coaches: A Systematic Scoping Review (2024) · cites this paper as [90]

  • Sleep quality has the potential to influence a coach's mental wellbeing (e.g. positive affect).

    “and that sleep quality has the potential influence a coach’s mental wellbeing (e.g. positive affect) [90]”

    From The Mental Health of Elite-Level Coaches: A Systematic Scoping Review (2024) · cites this paper as [90]

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Authors
Balk, Y. A., de Jonge, J., Geurts, S. A. E., & Oerlemans, W. G. M.
Affiliations
  • University of Amsterdam (NL)
  • Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
  • Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
Corresponding author
Balk, Yannick A.
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Venue
Psychology of Sport and Exercise
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2019-09
Volume
44
Pages
26-34
ISSN
1469-0292 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.psychsport.2019.04.020
OpenAlex
W2942567387
Cited by
37
References
62
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1
FWCI
4.54
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
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  • Psychology of sport and exercise (publishedVersion)
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  • UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
  • Adelaide Research & Scholarship (AR&S) (University of Adelaide) (submittedVersion)
  • Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
  • Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Sport Psychology and Performance
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Workaholism, burnout, and well-being
Keywords
perceived autonomy support, elite coaches, elite athletes, physical fatigue, positive affect, work engagement, athlete engagement, performance satisfaction, emotional detachment, coach well-being

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