| dc.description.abstract | The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between different coach behavior and athletes robust sport-confidence in a sample of elite and non-elite athletes in football, handball, bandy and ice hockey in Norway, in a cross-sectional survey. More specifically, it was hypothesized that positive coaching behavior would affect robust sport-confidence in a positive way, and negative coaching behavior would affect robust sport-confidence in a negative way. This cross-sectional survey is part of a larger project called “Elite Team Project 2023”, and is based on data collections made in autumn 2022 and winter 2023 where male (n = 264) and female (n = 161) athletes from Oslo, Trondheim, Bodo, Stavanger and Kristiansand participated. The athletes were around 22 years old (M [SD] = 22.6 [5.0]). The purpose with this study was to develop new and nuanced knowledge about psychological and social factors in elite sport teams, especially by looking at the relationship between different coaching behavior and the athletes robust sport-confidence. Correlation and regression analyzes were conducted. The results showed that different coaching behavior had no significant relationship to the athletes’ robust sport-confidence. Further the results showed that sex and age had a positive relationship to robust sport-confidence. The findings in this study are discussed in light of theory and previous research.
Key words: robust sport-confidence, coach behavior, identity leadership, destructive leadership, sport-confidence, elite athletes, Norwegian sport | |
