Percieved Coaching Style, Performance Anxiety and Performance Satisfaction among Team Sports Athletes

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to examine the relationship between perceived coaching styles, sports anxiety and performance satisfaction among team sports athletes. It was hypothesized that there will be a relationship between perceived coaching styles, performance anxiety and performance satisfaction. Correlational research design was used to conduct the study. A sample of 160 team sports club athletes, both men= 111 and women= 49 , with the age range from 13-30 years were recruited by using nonprobability purposive sampling from different team sports clubs in Islamabad. The athletic identity measurement scale, Coaches’ Controlling Interpersonal Style (CSS) (Bartholomew, Ntoumanis, and Thøgersen-Ntoumani), Sport Anxiety Scale 2 (SAS-2) (Smith et al., 2006) and Athlete’s Subjective Performance Scale (ASPS) (Nahum, Ben-Ami, Cohen & Shivek) were used to measure the constructs along with the demographic information sheet and informed consent. The results of Pearson Product Moment Correlation showed that Coach controlling behavior positively correlates with Performance Anxiety and Performance Satisfaction. Somatic anxiety and worry are strongly positively correlated and negatively correlate with concentration disruption. Regression results revealed that somatic anxiety and worry were negatively associated with CSS_T, indicating that higher levels of these variables were linked to lower scores on cognitive self-talk strategies. Conversely, concentration disruption showed a positive association with CSS_T, suggesting that higher levels of concentration disruption were associated with higher scores on cognitive self-talk strategies. Overall, the model accounted for 30% of the variance in CSS_T, with each additional predictor contributing to the explained variance. Demographics also had significant effect on the variables.