The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between perceived coaching behaviors and athlete burnout, and to investigate the mediation effects of psychological need satisfaction/thwarting and self-determined motivation on the relationship. Four hundred and eleven Korean collegiate athletes were active members of 19 different sports participated in the study. Their age on average was 21.37 years old (SD = 1.24), and they had 12.31 years (SD = 2.14) of experience in their sports. The participants completed seven questionnaires: a demographic questionnaire, the Korean version of Athlete Burnout Questionnaire, Basic Psychological Needs Scale, Psychological Need Thwarting Scale, Sport Behavioral Regulation Scale, Korean version of Controlling Coach Behaviors Scale, and short version of the Sport Climate Questionnaire. The athletes perceiving that their coaches provided autonomy-supportive coaching had higher levels of satisfaction on all three basic psychological needs, intrinsic motivation, and autonomous forms of motivation, and lower level of burnout, whereas the athletes perceiving that their coaches provided controlling coaching had higher levels of psychological need thwarting, controlled forms of motivation and amotivation, and burnout. Psychological need thwarting mediated both autonomy-supportive and controlling coaching behaviors, and amotivation was the only mediation variable among all types of self-determined motivation on the relationship between perceived coaching behaviors, psychological need satisfaction/thwarting, and burnout. Despite the limitations, the findings of this study may provide meaningful information for researchers in that this was the first study to simultaneously investigate all the relationships among perceived coaching behaviors, psychological need satisfaction/thwarting, self-determined motivation, and athlete burnout. The findings demonstrated the mechanism of all the relationships in terms of self-determination theory. From the applied perspective this may alert coaches to the importance of not providing controlling coaching environment. Moreover, sport psychology consultants may develop educational programs for coaches to learn importance of the perceived coaching behaviors and improve communication skills to understand how athlete perceive coaches' coaching behaviors. Sport psychology consultants also develop interventions for athletes to prevent or recover from burnout. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems in partial fulfillment
of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. / Summer Semester, 2014. / June 27, 2014. / Athlete Burnout, Coach-Athlete Relationship, Need Satisfaction, Need Thwarting, Self-Determination Theory / Includes bibliographical references. / Robert C. Eklund, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Gershon Tenenbaum, Professor Co-Directing Dissertation; Colleen Kelley, University Representative; Insu Paek, Committee Member; Jeannine Turner, Committee Member.
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| Contributors | Cho, Seongkwan (authoraut), Eklund, Robert C. (professor co-directing dissertation), Tenenbaum, Gershon (professor co-directing dissertation), Kelley, Colleen (university representative), Paek, Insu (committee member), Turner, Jeannine (committee member), Department of Educational Psychology and Learning Systems (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University, Florida State University |
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| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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