6–10 Jun 2022
Tübingen
Europe/Berlin timezone

"Come on boy, try harder now". Empirical Research of the Motivational-Congruent Coach-Players Communication (MoCo-CPC).

8 Jun 2022, 12:00
20m

Speaker

Christof Seeger

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Communication between the coach and player is not only a simple transmission process of messages (Lau, 2020), but has a great impact on the development of the athlete (Cranmer, 2021). Thus, it is necessary to find a ‘common’ adequate language to create acceptance and avoid misinformation between coach and player (Borggrefe et al., 2016).
For motivation as an activating orientation (Rheinberg, 2004), the two motivational systems “implicit” and “explicit” are often mentioned in motivational psychology (Brandstätter, 2013). Achievement motive (Murr et al., 2018; Gröpel, 2016) power motive (Langens et al., 2005) and the affiliate motive (Krug/Kuhl, 2006) are described as the “big three” motives (McClelland). The aim of the study was to find out which motives a trainer addresses when communicate with the respective players.
In an U16-youth-academy soccer-team, individual implicit motives were measured through an AI-supported picture-story-exercise test (Spitzer & Dörr, 2020). In addition we recorded and transcribed the trainer-player-communication during training-sessions. In this way, a total of 5,056 communication processes were AI-analyzed related to the “big-three“ motives.
Results show that the most used motive by the trainer is the “power motive”. But we also can point out, that in 1 out of 3 cases the transferred motives by the trainer communication did not fit to the implicit motives of players.
Thus, results imply that there is a need for an adapted language for the coaches. And it could be helpful to put these empirical results on a broader base to validate if these topics could complement the trainer qualification.

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