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.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.79836 |
| Date | January 2003 |
| Creators | Davies, Matthew John |
| Contributors | Bloom, Gordon A. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Arts (Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002086028, proquestno: AAIMQ98428, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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