@article{ref1,
title="When leadership, relationships and psychological safety promote flourishing in sport and life",
journal="Sports coaching review",
year="2023",
author="Gosai, Jyoti and Jowett, Sophia and Nascimento-Júnior, Jose Roberto Andrade Do",
volume="12",
number="2",
pages="145-165",
abstract="This study explored the associations between leadership and relationship constructs, as well as psychological safety in athletes' perceptions of flourishing and thriving. A total of 166 participants (males = 87; female = 79) from team sports completed a survey measuring athletes' perceptions of coach transformational leadership behaviours, coach-athlete relationship quality, team psychological safety, flourishing and thriving. A covariance-based structural equation modelling was employed. The analysis indicated that coach transformational leadership served as an antecedent to both team psychological safety and coach-athlete relationship quality. The analysis further highlighted that both relationship quality and psychological safety predicted athletes' flourishing and in turn thriving. Collectively, these findings suggest that coaches as leaders have a significant role to play in creating an environment that athletes feel valued, connected, confident and comfortable. In such environments, coaching becomes a process where coaches and athletes are fully integrated and sport becomes a worthwhile (inter)personal pursuit.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="2164-0629",
doi="10.1080/21640629.2021.1936960",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21640629.2021.1936960"
}