The purpose of the current study was to investigate factors affecting the job satisfaction of Canadian male university basketball coaches, as it pertained to their goals and measures of success for themselves, their athletes, and their team. Semi-structured individual interviews were conducted with six university coaches. Three higher-order categories emerged: (a) personal variables, which encompassed the philosophies the participants developed based on their athletic and coaching experiences, (b) internal elements, which involved what the coaches did for their athletes' academic, athletic, and personal development and the coaches' personal development, and (c) external influences, which included tangible and measurable positive and negative factors that affected the level of satisfaction derived from the other higher order categories. These results provide a clearer understanding of factors that affect coaches' job satisfaction, as well as the goals that coaches set and how they measure success. In addition, this information may be incorporated into coach training programs.

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