Abstract

This article focuses on revealing specific features of communication of coach with basketball players and wrestlers aged 15-18 (evaluation by athletes). By seeking to achieve the set goal, the following tasks were solved: to investigate how basketball players and wrestlers estimate their coach’s professional and non-professional communication and behaviour (gnostic, emotional and behavioural components), and to establish the efficiency of coach’s communication during training. It is presumed that athletes of team sports (basketball players) more favourably estimate the coach’s communication with them than the athletes of individual sports (wrestlers). During the research the following methods were applied: questionnaire-based analysis (questionnaire ‘Athlete and Trainer’ and ‘Efficiency of Communication during Training’) and mathematical statistics. The method ‘Athlete and Trainer’ defines positive and negative athlete’s attitude to communication with trainer. The following three components of communication between athlete and trainer were evaluated: gnostic (informative), emotional and interactive (behavioural). The T. Dembo and S. Rubinstein method ‘Research on the Efficiency of Communication during Training’ is constructed to evaluate four rates: trainer’s attentiveness, trainer’s criticism, trainer’s praise, and trainer’s support. The research was carried out in 2004 with 86 basketball players and wrestlers aged 15-18. When applying the J. Hanin method ‘Athlete and Trainer’, it was established that basketball players estimate favourably their trainer’s behaviour and communication, and wrestlers – only on average. When applying mathematical statistics, it was disclosed that basketball players statistically significantly had more favourable estimation of their interaction with trainer and the level of trainer’s emotional components. When employing the T. Dembo and S. Rubinstein method ‘Research on the Efficiency of Communication during Training’, it was revealed that basketball players evaluated trainer’s criticism as milder, and had statistically significantly more favourable estimation of trainer’s support during training. Verf.-Referat