Abstract

SANTOS, Felipe  and  COSTA, Varley. Stress among sports coaches: a systematic review. CPD [online]. 2018, vol.18, n.3, pp.268-292.  Epub July 26, 2021. ISSN 1989-5879.

The purpose of the present study was to conduct a systematic review of stress among coaches. Papers published from 1994 to 2016 were selected from seven electronic databases, and the following keywords in English, Spanish and Portuguese were used in the search: stress, estrés, estresse, coach(es), entrenador(es), and treinador(es). Thirty studies were included in this systematic review and selected according to their methodological quality; qualitative studies for stress assessment among sports coaches were predominant. The coaches were affected by organisational stressors such as social isolation, poor training facilities, the need to manage conflict, and interference of the athletes' relatives during training sessions and competitions. The coaches were also affected by performance stressors such as concern about their own and the athletes' performance, pressure from the media and managers to achieve results and concerns related to athletes' injuries. Thus, the results show that the stressors affecting sports coaches are multifactorial and are related to the coaches' level of competition. Future studies should analyse the practice time of coaches, which is a variable that can interfere with stress levels.

Keywords : Coaches; Stress; Sport Psychology.

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