Coaching Competency and (Exploratory) Structural Equation Modeling: A Substantive-Methodological Synergy.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this manuscript was to provide a substantive-methodological synergy of potential importance to future research in the psychology of sport and exercise.

Design

The substantive focus was the emerging role for, and particularly the measurement of, athletes' evaluations of their coach's competency within conceptual models of effective coaching. The methodological focus was exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM), a methodology that integrates the advantages of exploratory factor analysis and confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) within the general structural equation model.

Method

The synergy was a demonstration of when a new and flexible methodological framework, ESEM, may be preferred as compared to a more familiar and restrictive methodol

SUBMITTER: Myers ND 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3686321 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature