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Understanding Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviours in the Parasport Coaching Context.

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正題名/作者:	Understanding Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviours in the Parasport Coaching Context./
作者:	Alexander, Danielle M.
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (200 pages)
附註:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-05B.
標題:	Exercise. -
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Understanding Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviours in the Parasport Coaching Context.
Alexander, Danielle M.

Understanding Attitudes, Knowledge, and Behaviours in the Parasport Coaching Context. - 1 online resource (200 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-05, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McGill University (Canada), 2023.

Includes bibliographical references

Parasport coaches have the potential to foster physical, psychological, and social benefits for the athletes with whom they work. To date, there is a lack of available parasport coaching knowledge and resources for people who work in this specialized setting. The purpose of this dissertation was to explore attitudes, knowledge, and behaviours in the parasport coaching context. The first study explored how newspaper media portrayed dominant discourses of parasport coaches over a 20-year time span. Data were collected using the LexisNexis Academic database to search for full-text newspaper articles from January 1, 1999 to January 1, 2019. We identified three opposing subject positions within the media that emphasized societal perceptions of coaching parasport athletes compared to able-bodied athletes. This study provided insight into the complex and often divided discourses that are involved in parasport coaching that set this population apart from able-bodied coaching. The second study involved a partnership with a provincial coaching association to explore the effectiveness of a formal parasport coach mentorship program. In interviewing and conducting focus groups with mentor and mentee coaches throughout the year long program, we found that mentee coaches appreciated having support, knowledge, and guidance from a more experienced parasport coach. Both mentors and mentees highlighted the desire to engage with coaches outside their mentoring relationships to network, connect, and learn from, and recommended a greater sense of community within the program. Finally, the third study explored the role of the head coach in managing national parasport teams from three countries around the world. Conducting interviews and focus groups with a multitude of different people on each team (i.e., head coaches, assistant coaches, mental performance consultants, high-performance managers, strength and conditioning coaches), participants spoke about coaching practices and behaviours that were both facilitative and debilitative in creating cohesiveness on their teams. In particular, coaches were successful in creating a strong environment when they were able to (1) understand and manage demographic variability on their teams (e.g., age, gender, disability, finances), (2) have strong team values (e.g., setting behavioural expectations), and (3) utilize their integrated support team to better serve their athletes. Together, this doctoral program of research contributes an in-depth comprehension of parasport coaching, including how coaching is understood (Study 1: Attitudes), desired parasport-specific coach learning (Study 2: Knowledge), and how coaches contribute to creating a strong team environment (Study 3: Behaviours). The theoretical and practical findings will contribute to improving the knowledge and skillset of parasport coaches, and ultimately, enhance the personal and professional sport experiences of parasport athletes from around the world.

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2023

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520 $a Les entraineurs parasports ont le potentiel de favoriser les avantages physiques, psychologiques et sociaux des athletes avec qui ils travaillent. A ce jour, il y a un manque de connaissances et de ressources specifiques au parasport disponibles pour les personnes qui travaillent dans ce milieu specialise. L'objectif de cette dissertation etait d'explorer les attitudes, les connaissances, et les comportements entourant les entraineurs qui operent dans le contexte parasport. La premiere etude a explore la facon dont les medias ont deteint les discours dominants des entraineurs de parasport sur une periode de 20 ans. Les donnees ont ete collectees en utilisant la banque de donnees LexisNexis Academic afin de rechercher des articles de journaux en texte integral datant du 1er janvier 1999 au 1er janvier 2019. Nous avons identifie trois positions de sujets opposes dans les medias qui mettaient l'accent sur les perceptions societales de l'entrainement d'athletes parasportifs par rapport aux athletes non-parasportifs. Cette etude a donne un apercu des discours complexes et souvent divises qui sont presents dans l'entrainement parasportif distinguant ainsi cette population des athletes non-parasportifs. La deuxieme etude a explore l'efficacite d'un programme de mentorat formel developpe pour les entraineurs de parasport. En interrogeant et conduisant des discussions de groupe avec des mentors et des mentores pendant un programme qui durait un an, nous avons decouvert que les entraineurs mentores appreciaient le support, les connaissances, et les conseils recus par des entraineurs de parasport experimentes. Les mentors et les mentores ont souligne le desir d'interagir avec des entraineurs en dehors de leurs relations de mentorat a des fins de reseautage, de connexions, et d'apprentissage. Les participants ont d'ailleurs recommande un plus grand sens de communaute au sein du programme. En collectant les donnees dans trois differents pays, la troisieme etude a explore le role de l'entraineur-chef en ce qui a trait a la gestion d'equipes parasportifs. A la suite d'entretiens et de groupes de discussions avec une multitude de personnes differentes au sein des equipes (p. ex. entraineurschefs, assistants-entraineurs, consultants en performances mentales, gerants de haute performance, entraineurs physiques), les participants ont revele des comportements d'entraineurchef qui etaient facilitateurs et d'autres qui etaient debilitants dans la creation de cohesion au sein de leur equipe. Precisement, les entraineurs reussissaient a creer un environnement solide lorsqu'ils pouvaient 1) comprendre et gerer la variabilite demographique de leur equipe (par ex. l'age, le sexe, le handicap, les finances), 2) avoir des valeurs d'equipes fortes (p. ex. : etablir des attentes de comportements) et 3) utiliser leur equipe de support integree afin de mieux servir leurs athletes. Ensemble, ce programme de recherche doctoral contribue a une comprehension approfondie de l'entrainement parasportif, incluant la facon dont l'entrainement est compris (etude 1 : attitudes), l'apprentissage souhaite par les entraineurs concernant le parasport (etude 2 : connaissances) et la facon dont les entraineurs contribuent a la creation d'un environnement d'equipe solide (etude 3 : comportements). Les decouvertes theoriques et pratiques de ce projet contribueront a ameliorer les connaissances et les competences des entraineurs parasportifs et ultimement, a ameliorer les experiences personnelles et professionnelles des athletes parasportifs de divers pays.
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