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"The good coach": Subjective perceptions of coaching in performance athletes
Fialová, Kateřina ; Mudrák, Jiří (advisor) ; Vítek, Petr (referee)
This bachelor's thesis explores the lived experience of performance athletes with their coaches. The aim of the thesis is to identify key themes through which performance athletes describe their experience of the quality of their coaches' work and how they construct the concept of a "good coach" through these themes. The theoretical part of the thesis is divided into three chapters, introduce the various themes that are relevant to the research topic. Attention is paid to defining the coaching profession including coaching roles, coach typology, defining a good coach based on research studies and elaborating on motivational climate. The next chapter elaborates on motivational theories, with particular emphasis on self-determination theory. The next section of the thesis focuses on the personality of the athlete, emphasizing the Big Five personality theory and the determinants that appear to be important in the context of coaching. The empirical part of the bachelor thesis was conducted using a qualitative research design. Data collection was conducted through semi- structured interviews. 5 participants, 4 men and 1 woman, took part in the research. The interviews were transcribed and analysed using thematic analysis method. Based on this procedure, 9 themes were identified that were identified by...
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