Autonomy And Coach Autonomy Model

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PURPOSE The purpose of this research is for evaluation sports, such as youth soccer, and which the situations of the involvement of coaches and coach autonomy support predicts a type or form of motivation in the self-determination theory range, both by the need of satisfaction. There is a theoretical model, which is Figure 1 that helps understand the purpose clearly.
HYPOTHESIS
The hypothesis concluded “there would be a positive direct and indirect effect of autonomy support on intrinsic motivation and identified regulation, and that these effects would be moderated by coach involvement such that the effect of coach autonomy support would have the strongest positive association with the outcomes when coach involvement was high (Reynolds &
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There were 142 kids; 106 were female and 36 were male. The mean and standard deviation of the kids playing on community based youth soccer teams was 13.38 and .97, respectively. The mean and standard deviation for the kids who had been playing soccer was for 7.42 years and 2.4, respectively. The average and standard deviation for them playing on their current team is 2.59 years and 2.05, respectively and have also been with their current coach for 2.5 years and 1.80, respectively. About 83.8% of the kids were Caucasian, about 4.9% were Multiracial, about 3.5% were Latino, about 2.1% African American, about 1.4 % were Asian or an Islander, and lastly about 3.5% were other. All the instruments used in collecting data was consent form to recruit kids who play soccer under U-15, and requested parents to fill out consent forms. Only the volunteers returned the forms and then the kids were assessed and administered a 20 to 30 minute …show more content…
These fifteen questions were also rated within a 7-point scale; 1 meaning strongly disagree and 7 meaning they strongly agree. The measures of Coach Involvement in the questionnaire were relationship based and had examples like, “To what extent could you turn to your coach for advice about problems? (Reynolds & McDonough, 2015)”. These five questions were rated on a 4-point scale; 1 meaning not at all and 4 meaning very much. The measure in Need Satisfaction was split into 3 sections, first being a five question division of competence in the intrinsic motivation and this helped distinguish there was a greater or smaller competence need for satisfaction. The participants had to rate the questions on a 7-point scale; 1 meaning they totally disagree and 7 meaning the totally agree. An example of these types of question is, “I think I am pretty good at soccer (Reynolds & McDonough, 2015)”. The second section was five questions on a division of acceptance, which was the need of relatedness, and an example of these questions is, “On this soccer team, I feel understood (Reynolds & McDonough, 2015)”. These questions were rated on a 5-point scale; 1 meaning totally disagree and 5 meaning they totally agree. Lastly, the third section of Need Satisfaction is autonomy being measured with six questions from the