Abstract

PINEDA-ESPEJEL, HA; MORQUECHO-SANCHEZ, R  and  ALARCON, E. Coach interpersonal style, competence, motivation, and precompetitive anxiety in high performance athletes. CPD [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.1, pp.10-24.  Epub June 29, 2020. ISSN 1989-5879.

The aim of this study was to test a model that examines the sequence: interpersonal style that athletes perceive that generates the coach, need for competence (satisfaction and thwarted), motivational regulations, and pre-competitive self-confidence and anxiety consequences. The mediating role of the need for competence and motivational regulations was also discussed. A set of questionnaires was administered to 239 high performance athletes who participated in a variety of sports. The results showed an adequate adjustment of the model to the data (S-B χ2=35.711, p< .01; RMSEA=.066; NNFI=.904; CFI=.947), and indicated that the autonomy support coaching style positively predicts the satisfaction of the need for competence (β=.17, p<.05), it positively predicted autonomous motivation to sports participation (β=.23, p<.05), and negatively the amotivation (β=-.22, p<.05); while the autonomous motivation predicts precompetitive self-confidence (β=.29, p<.05), and motivation does the precompetitive anxiety in their cognitive (β=.28, p<.01) and somatic (β=.17, p<.05) dimensions. On the other hand, the controller coaching style predicts positively the controlled motivation to sports participation (β=.27, p<.05); this association is partially mediated by the thwarted need for competence. The results support the importance of autonomy support coaching style due to their effects on self-confidence and precompetitive anxiety of athletes.

Keywords : Autonomy-supportive coaching; controlling style; motivation; need for competence.

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