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Swimming coaches’ professional development and training practices: an international survey

This study investigated swim coaches' perceptions of professional development issues and current training practices according to their coaching experience, education level, and gender. An online survey (January—April 2022) was completed by 123 swim coaches (96 male/27 female) of competitive swi...

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Autores principales: Dalamitros, Athanasios A., Nikolopoulos, Alexandros, Varsamidou, Katerina, Gourgoulis, Vassilios, Zafeiroudi, Aglaia, Loukovitis, Andreas, Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier, Tornero-Aguilera, José Francisco, Powell, Cormac
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10390787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37533584
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1229066
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author Dalamitros, Athanasios A.
Nikolopoulos, Alexandros
Varsamidou, Katerina
Gourgoulis, Vassilios
Zafeiroudi, Aglaia
Loukovitis, Andreas
Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier
Tornero-Aguilera, José Francisco
Powell, Cormac
author_facet Dalamitros, Athanasios A.
Nikolopoulos, Alexandros
Varsamidou, Katerina
Gourgoulis, Vassilios
Zafeiroudi, Aglaia
Loukovitis, Andreas
Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier
Tornero-Aguilera, José Francisco
Powell, Cormac
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description This study investigated swim coaches' perceptions of professional development issues and current training practices according to their coaching experience, education level, and gender. An online survey (January—April 2022) was completed by 123 swim coaches (96 male/27 female) of competitive swimmers based in 41 countries. The survey consisted of 36 questions divided into six sections: (1) background information, (2) developing swim coaching through learning, (3) self-evaluation, (4) interpersonal-intrapersonal interactions, (5) life skills, and (6) analyzing swimming performance. Pearson chi-square assessed the relationship between the frequency of responses and professional background and gender. The survey results indicated that swim coaches' educational level is potentially one of the most influential parameters affecting the coaches' perceptions about their own professional development. The data presented may be used for the future design of coach education programmes as they advance current knowledge on understanding psycho-social issues related to professional development and training perceptions involved in the competitive swimming environment.
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spelling pubmed-103907872023-08-02 Swimming coaches’ professional development and training practices: an international survey Dalamitros, Athanasios A. Nikolopoulos, Alexandros Varsamidou, Katerina Gourgoulis, Vassilios Zafeiroudi, Aglaia Loukovitis, Andreas Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier Tornero-Aguilera, José Francisco Powell, Cormac Front Sports Act Living Sports and Active Living This study investigated swim coaches' perceptions of professional development issues and current training practices according to their coaching experience, education level, and gender. An online survey (January—April 2022) was completed by 123 swim coaches (96 male/27 female) of competitive swimmers based in 41 countries. The survey consisted of 36 questions divided into six sections: (1) background information, (2) developing swim coaching through learning, (3) self-evaluation, (4) interpersonal-intrapersonal interactions, (5) life skills, and (6) analyzing swimming performance. Pearson chi-square assessed the relationship between the frequency of responses and professional background and gender. The survey results indicated that swim coaches' educational level is potentially one of the most influential parameters affecting the coaches' perceptions about their own professional development. The data presented may be used for the future design of coach education programmes as they advance current knowledge on understanding psycho-social issues related to professional development and training perceptions involved in the competitive swimming environment. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-07-18 /pmc/articles/PMC10390787/ /pubmed/37533584 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1229066 Text en © 2023 Dalamitros, Nikolopoulos, Varsamidou, Gourgoulis, Zafeiroudi, Loukovitis, Clemente-Suárez, Tornero-Aguilera and Powell. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Dalamitros, Athanasios A.
Nikolopoulos, Alexandros
Varsamidou, Katerina
Gourgoulis, Vassilios
Zafeiroudi, Aglaia
Loukovitis, Andreas
Clemente-Suárez, Vicente Javier
Tornero-Aguilera, José Francisco
Powell, Cormac
Swimming coaches’ professional development and training practices: an international survey
title Swimming coaches’ professional development and training practices: an international survey
title_full Swimming coaches’ professional development and training practices: an international survey
title_fullStr Swimming coaches’ professional development and training practices: an international survey
title_full_unstemmed Swimming coaches’ professional development and training practices: an international survey
title_short Swimming coaches’ professional development and training practices: an international survey
title_sort swimming coaches’ professional development and training practices: an international survey
topic Sports and Active Living
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10390787/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37533584
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fspor.2023.1229066
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