Athletes experience and cope with stressful performance situations throughout their careers. Many coping studies examine athletes’ self-reported coping strategies in past stressful events or ask athletes to report the types of coping strategies they utilized during non-specific stressful events (Crocker & Graham, 1995; Gould et al., 1993b; Gould et al., 1993c; Madden et al., 1989). Coping research is limited in that previous studies examined participants’ competitive stressor and reported coping strategies in incomparable situations (Gaudreau et al., 2002; Gaudreau et al., 2001). Research demonstrates the importance of athlete perception of coach leadership behaviors on athlete outcomes in general, but is limited when specifically related to athlete coping (Chelladurai, 1984; Chelladurai, 1990; Chelladurai, 2007; Garland & Barry, 1988; Poczwardowski et al., 2002; Schliesman, 1987; Vallerand & Losier, 1999; Weiss & Friedrichs, 1986). The purpose of the proposed study was to examine the extent to which perceived coach leadership behaviors contributed to athlete coping strategies in sport-specific, stressful performance situations. Current and former senior level pairs and singles figure skaters completed the Multifactor Leadership Questionnaire to report perceived coach leadership behaviors (MLQ; Bass & Avolio, 2004). Each participant then read two sport-specific, stressful coping scenarios and completed the Modified COPE for each coping scenario, respectively, in order to examine the relationship between perceived coach leadership behaviors and athlete coping (MCOPE; Crocker, 1992). Findings from this study indicate that active leadership positively predicted problem-focused coping for scenario I, transactional and active leadership positively predicted problem-focused coping for scenario II, active and passive/avoidant leadership positively predicted emotion-focused coping for scenario II, and passive/avoidant leadership positively predicted avoidance coping for scenario II. / A Thesis submitted to the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems in partial fulfillment of the Master of Science. / Summer Semester 2017. / July 18, 2017. / Coach-athlete relationship, Coach leadership, Coping, Elite athlete, Figure skaters / Includes bibliographical references. / Graig Chow, Professor Directing Thesis; Gershon Tenenbaum, Committee Member; Angela Canto, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_552027 |
| Contributors | Allen, Taylor Sonia (authoraut), Chow, Graig Michael (professor directing thesis), Tenenbaum, Gershon (committee member), Canto, Angela I. (committee member), Florida State University (degree granting institution), College of Education (degree granting college), Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems (degree granting departmentdgg) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text, master thesis |
| Format | 1 online resource (99 pages), computer, application/pdf |
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