Identifying Factors Affecting Development of Iranian Basketball Coaches

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
nahid adibpoor 1
Safania Ali mohammad 2
Habib Honari 3
shiva azadfada 4
1 PhD student in the Department of Sports Management, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 Islamic Azad University Science and Research Branch, Tehran
3 Faculty of Physical Education and Sciences of Allame Tabatabaei University
4 Assistant Professor, Department of Sports Management, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The aim of this research was to identify factors affecting success of the basketball coaches. To conduct this qualitative research, which was exploratory in nature, the theory of Strauss and Corbin (1998) was used. The participants (n=28) in this study were all experts (coaches, national team players, basketball experts and executive officials) were selected through purposive sampling until reaching saturation of data. Analysis of the data involved three-phase coding, while the Evaluative Criteria of Lincoln and Guba (1985) consisting of `Credibility,’ `Transferability,’ `Dependability,’ and `Confirmability,’ was used for the reliability and generalization purposes. The initial coding of the research findings yielded 92 codes (concepts) with 302 frequencies. This is while, the axial coding presented 23 sub-categories and eventually five major categories (`The Leadership and Managerial Capabilities,’ `Personality Features,’ `Experience and Track Record of the Coach,’ and `The Cultural and Moral Features of the Coach’) emerged as a result of selective coding. Regarding the research findings, those interested in basketball coaching and the coaches, who wish to get promoted in the field, are suggested to care for personal growth and try to upgrade their capabilities and potential in the afore-mentioned areas. Furthermore, since coaching is a profession like teaching, which deals with educating and training individuals, the federations and even Ministry of Science, Research and Technology are suggested to set up scientific centers to deal with development of coaches, while putting specialized courses, being exclusive to any sports branches, in the educational syllabus; then introducing and referring those, who successfully pass the course, to municipality offices and related organs for practical courses and give them coaching certificates after graduation.
Keywords
coach
coding
Grounded Theory
progress
success
  1. Adib Haj Bagheri, Mohsen; Parvizi, Sarwar; Salsali, Mahvash. (2010). Qualitative Research Methods, Tehran. Human Publishing and Propagation. Second edition. (in persian).
  2. Balogh, J., & Trzaskoma-Bicsérdy, G. (2020). Does Age Matter? Hungarian Basketball Coaches’ Pedagogical Beliefs. Journal of Education and Training Studies, 8(7), 10-19.
  3. Bortoli, L., Bertollo, M., Messina, G., Chiariotti, R., & Robazza, C. (2010). Augmented feedback of experienced and less experienced volleyball coaches. Social Behavior and Personality, 38(4), 453-460.
  4. Brown, F. (2020). Alarmingly Low Number of Women Coaches in College Basketball (MA thesis, University of Southern Maine).
  5. Caspi, A., & Roberts, B.W. (2001). Personality development across the life course. Psychological Inquiry, 12(2), 49-66.
  6. Castillo, I., Adell, F.L., & Alvarez, O. (2018). Relationships between personal values and leadership behaviors in basketball coaches. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 1-14.
  7. Chelladurai, P. (1984). Discrepancy between preferences and perceptions of leadership behavior. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 6(1), 27-41.
  8. Chelladurai, P., & Saleh, S.D. (1980). Dimensions of leader behavior in sports. Journal of Sport Psychology, 2(1), 34-45.
  9. Collet, C., Nascimento, J.V., Folle, A., & Ibáñez, S.J. (2019). Dynamic Elements of Sports Development: Perceptions of Basketball Coaches. Revista de Psicología del Deporte, 28(3), 79-85.
  10. Dania, A., & Harvey, S. (2020). Teaching basketball to sampling-year athletes. Journal of Physical Education and Sport, 20(2), 529-538.
  11. El-Saleh, M.S., & Althawabeyeh, M.M. (2020). Distinguished leadership behaviours and styles of basketball coaches in UAE universities. International Conference on Psychology of Education Sciences and Lifestyle, 15, 394-407.
  12. Gilbert, W.D., & Trudel, P. (2001). Learning to coach through experience. Journal of Teaching in Physical Education, 21(1), 16-34.
  13. Hamidi, M., & Memari, Zh. (2013). Explaining the exploratory model of the criteria for selecting national coaches. Sports Management Studies, 24, 31-58. (in Persian).
  14. Holt, N.L., & Tamminen, K.A. (2010). Moving forward with grounded theory in sport and exercise psychology. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 11(6), 419-422.
  15. Howie, L., & Allison, W. (2015). The English Football Association Charter for Quality. Soccer & Society, 1-10.
  16. Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Baseet, W. (2018). Cognitive Outcomes and their Relation to some of the Skills of Motor Analysis for Basketball Coaches in Upper Egypt. Assiut Journal of Sport Science and Arts, 2018(2), 34-59.
  17. Kohandel, M., Amirtash, A.M., & Mozaffari, S.A. (2003). Determining and prioritizing the selection criteria of national team coaches. Olympics, 10(2), 17-28. (in Persian).
  18. Koohian Afzali, F. (2022). Designing a model for training and developing sports coaching in Iran (PhD Thesis, Kharazmi University). (in Persian).
  19. Lemonidis, N., Tzioumakis, Y., Gourgoulis, V., Michalopoulou, M., Tourountzi, E., & Mavridis, G. (2014). Coaching behavior in professional basketball. Athletic Insight, 6(1), 65-74.
  20. Lincoln, Y.S., & Guba, E.G. (1985). Naturalistic Inquiry. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  21. Lyle, J., & Muir, B. (2020). Coaches’ decision making. In The Routledge International Encyclopedia of Sport and Exercise Psychology. Routledge, London.
  22. Makhlouf, M. (2020). The role of the coach in improving basketball game. An-Najah University Journal for Research - B, 34(5), 1-29.
  23. McLean, A.J. (2020). An Examination of the Relationships between Emotional Intelligence and Winning Percentage in Basketball Coaches (Doctoral dissertation, Grand Canyon University).
  24. Miller, S.M., & Siegel, J.T. (2017). Youth sports and physical activity. Psychology of Sport and Exercise, 33, 85-92.
  25. Monazami, A.H., et al. (2014). Development of criteria for selecting national volleyball coaches. Applied Research in Sports Management, 2(2), 111-119. (in Persian).
  26. Pratt, L.J., Hutchinson, E.B., & Middleton, C. (2018). Factors That Impact Compensation of NCAA Head Basketball Coaches. Journal of Economics and Economic Education Research, 18(2), 61-90.
  27. Prichard, A., & Deutsch, J. (2015). The effects of motivational climate on youth sport participants. The Physical Educator, 72(5), 200-214.
  28. Radu, A. (2015). Basketball coaching: Putting theory into practice (1st ed.). Bloomsbury Publishing.
  29. Rottensteiner, C., Laakso, L., Pihlaja, T., & Konttinen, N. (2013). Personal reasons for withdrawal from team sports. International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, 8(1), 19-32.
  30. Schwaba, T., & Bleidorn, W. (2018). Individual differences in personality change across the adult lifespan. Journal of Personality, 86(3), 450-464.
  31. Sourav Das. (2022). Top 10 Most Popular Sports In The World April 2022. Retrieved from https://sportsbrowser.net/most-popular-sports/.
  32. Strauss, A., & Corbin, J. (1998). Basics of qualitative research: Techniques and procedures for developing grounded theory (2nd ed.). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
  33. Wey Smola, K., & Sutton, C.D. (2002). Generational differences: Revisiting the concept of work values. Journal of Organizational Behavior, 23(4), 363-382.
  34. Zamani, A., Aroufzad, S., Nazari, R., & Movahedi, A. (2021). Presentation of Paradigm Model for Iran’ Professional Sport Coaching. New Trends in Sport Management, 9(32), 139-152.