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Athletes Perception In Professional Sports

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There are systematic observations on how athletes perceive their coaches and on what the athletes believe will make a coach good. Most of the studies done this way have common themes on what qualities athletes believe a coach should have, but what about the coaches what do they think? In a qualitative analysis done on professional basketball players and their coaches there were clear discrepancies between the participants perceptions. For this study questioners were handed out and the contributors were assured confidentiality. The athletes rated their coach and the coaches rated their own behaviors. According to the data the coaches perceived their coaching behaviors as more supportive compared to what the players thought.

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