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ArticleFrontiers in sports and active living2023

Swimming coaches' professional development and training practices: an international survey.

Athanasios A Dalamitros, Alexandros Nikolopoulos, Katerina Varsamidou, Vassilios Gourgoulis, Aglaia Zafeiroudi, Andreas Loukovitis, Vicente Javier Clemente-Suárez, José Francisco Tornero-Aguilera, Cormac Powell

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Article in Frontiers in sports and active living, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Athanasios A Dalamitros *Laboratory of Evaluation of Human Biological Performance, School of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Alexandros NikolopoulosSchool of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Katerina VarsamidouLaboratory of Evaluation of Human Biological Performance, School of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Vassilios GourgoulisSchool of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece.
Aglaia ZafeiroudiApplied Leisure Sciences Laboratory, School of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, University of Thessaly, Trikala, Greece.
Andreas LoukovitisLaboratory of Human Studies and Sport Psychology, School of Physical Education & Sport Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Vicente Javier Clemente-SuárezFaculty of Sports Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
José Francisco Tornero-AguileraFaculty of Sports Sciences, Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
Cormac Powell *High-Performance Unit, Sport Ireland, Sport Ireland Campus, Dublin, Ireland.

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Abstract

This study investigated swim coaches' perceptions of professional development issues and current training practices according to their coaching experience, education level, and gender. An online survey (January-April 2022) was completed by 123 swim coaches (96 male/27 female) of competitive swimmers based in 41 countries. The survey consisted of 36 questions divided into six sections: (1) background information, (2) developing swim coaching through learning, (3) self-evaluation, (4) interpersonal-intrapersonal interactions, (5) life skills, and (6) analyzing swimming performance. Pearson chi-square assessed the relationship between the frequency of responses and professional background and gender. The survey results indicated that swim coaches' educational level is potentially one of the most influential parameters affecting the coaches' perceptions about their own professional development. The data presented may be used for the future design of coach education programmes as they advance current knowledge on understanding psycho-social issues related to professional development and training perceptions involved in the competitive swimming environment.

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coachingcompetitive swimmingprofessional backgroundpsycho-social issuestraining approaches

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PMCPMC10390787

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