Analysis of the Relationship between Satisfaction with the Coach and the Effect of Comparative Social Feedback in Elite Female Handball Players

Juan Antonio García-Herrero, Diego Soto-García, Rodrigo J. Carcedo, Isidoro Martínez-Martín and Pedro Delgado-Floody
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Juan Antonio García-Herrero: Department of Didactics of Musical, Plastic and Corporal Expression, University of Salamanca, 37008 Salamanca, Spain
Diego Soto-García: Department Physical and Sport Education and Group Research AMRED, University of León, 24007 León, Spain
Rodrigo J. Carcedo: Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology, University of Salamanca, 37005 Salamanca, Spain
Isidoro Martínez-Martín: Department Physical and Sport Education and Group Research AMRED, University of León, 24007 León, Spain
Pedro Delgado-Floody: Department of Physical Education, Sport, and Recreation, Universidad de La Frontera, Temuco 4780000, Chile

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 13, 1-11

Abstract: This research aims at studying the effect of comparative feedback on psychological variables (competence valuation, perceived competence, autonomous motivation, amotivation, subjective well-being) and performance (throwing speed and accuracy). A total of 73 handball players from the highest Spanish handball (Iberdrola League) category participated in this study. After previously rating satisfaction with their head coach, they were indiscriminately assigned to one of three different experimental conditions measuring feedback, positive, negative, and none. There were significant differences in competence valuation, perceived competence, autonomous motivation, and throwing speed in the three feedback groups, more concretely, low satisfaction with the head coach. Positive effects were found when there was low satisfaction with the coach and positive feedback on the competence valuation, autonomous motivation, and throwing speed compared to negative or no feedback. These results have important implications for optimizing coaches’ behaviors in relation to athlete well-being and performance.

Keywords: motivation; competence; well-being; performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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