Adopting Evaluative Conditioning to Improve Coach–Athlete Relationships

Coach–athlete relationships are key to athletes’ well-being, development, training, and sports performance. The present study explored the effect of an evaluative conditioning (EC) intervention on the improvement of coach–athlete relationships. We applied a 6-week EC intervention to the athletes in...

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Autores principales:	Jie Li, Beibei Chen, Yu Zhang
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	coach–athlete relationship evaluative conditioning affective association emotion intervention Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:8ee474c148bf46029ed25943f30277182021-11-30T17:12:36ZAdopting Evaluative Conditioning to Improve Coach–Athlete Relationships1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.751990https://doaj.org/article/8ee474c148bf46029ed25943f30277182021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.751990/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Coach–athlete relationships are key to athletes’ well-being, development, training, and sports performance. The present study explored the effect of an evaluative conditioning (EC) intervention on the improvement of coach–athlete relationships. We applied a 6-week EC intervention to the athletes in a volleyball team with two of their coaches involved in the EC while the third coach taken as control. In the EC, we repeatedly presented the coaches’ facial images (i.e., conditioned stimuli) together with positively valenced pictures and words (i.e., unconditioned stimuli) to the athletes. The results showed that the EC intervention led the athletes to recognize their coaches’ neutral faces as showing more happiness, respond faster to coach-positive associations in the implicit association test (IAT), and give higher ratings to the coaches in the Coach–Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (CART-Q). The present study suggests that EC may be adopted as an effective intervention for coach–athlete relationships, altering athletes’ affective associations with their coaches to be more positive and improving their explicitly evaluation of the relationship.Jie LiJie LiJie LiJie LiBeibei ChenBeibei ChenYu ZhangFrontiers Media S.A.articlecoach–athlete relationshipevaluative conditioningaffective associationemotioninterventionPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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description	Coach–athlete relationships are key to athletes’ well-being, development, training, and sports performance. The present study explored the effect of an evaluative conditioning (EC) intervention on the improvement of coach–athlete relationships. We applied a 6-week EC intervention to the athletes in a volleyball team with two of their coaches involved in the EC while the third coach taken as control. In the EC, we repeatedly presented the coaches’ facial images (i.e., conditioned stimuli) together with positively valenced pictures and words (i.e., unconditioned stimuli) to the athletes. The results showed that the EC intervention led the athletes to recognize their coaches’ neutral faces as showing more happiness, respond faster to coach-positive associations in the implicit association test (IAT), and give higher ratings to the coaches in the Coach–Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (CART-Q). The present study suggests that EC may be adopted as an effective intervention for coach–athlete relationships, altering athletes’ affective associations with their coaches to be more positive and improving their explicitly evaluation of the relationship.
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title	Adopting Evaluative Conditioning to Improve Coach–Athlete Relationships
title_short	Adopting Evaluative Conditioning to Improve Coach–Athlete Relationships
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