A System for the Behavioral Assessment of Athletic Coaches

TLDR

The CBAS could extend interpersonal behavior research into sport psychology. The study describes a behavioral assessment system for coding and analyzing athletic coaches’ behaviors in naturalistic settings. The CBAS comprises 12 categories derived from coaching behavior analyses, and coders are trained to apply it in field settings with reported reliability studies. Reliability studies show that high scorer accuracy and interrater reliability are achievable.

Abstract

Abstract A behavioral assessment system for coding and analyzing the behaviors of athletic coaches in naturalistic settings is described. The Coaching Behavior Assessment System (CBAS) consists of 12 behavioral categories derived from content analyses of coaching behaviors during practices and games. The manner in which coders are trained and the CBAS used in field settings is described, and the results of several reliability studies are reported. These studies indicate that high scorer accuracy and interrater reliability can be attained. The potential use of the CBAS to extend the study of interpersonal behavior into the realm of sport psychology is also discussed.