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Emotional Regulation Among High School Varsity Basketball Coaches, Dan Ourian

Applied Sport & Performance Psychology | Faculty Dissertations and Theses

As the field of sport psychology has grown, researchers and applied practitioners have turned their attention from working solely with athletes to working with the coaches who lead those athletes. Coaches, with their various roles, constraints and stressors, are performers in their own right, in need of assistance with their mental performance (Giges, Petitpas & Vernacchia, 2004). The present study examined how emotional regulation is valued as a psychological skill among 10 high school varsity basketball coaches. Through semi structured interviews and thematic content analysis, the coaches' view on how emotions impact their coaching practice is explored. Results regarding their …