Relationship between perceived coaching behaviors and pre-season skills of collegiate volleyball players

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between the hitting and serving percentages of collegiate volleyball players and perceived coaching behaviors of their respective coaches. The study included 23 participates [sic], 18 to 22 years old, from Oklahoma City University's (n = 11) and the University of Central Oklahoma's (n = 12) varsity volleyball teams. The subjects' hitting and serving percentages were recorded after each match during their pre-season competition. Once the pre-season was over, the researcher administrated the Coaching Behaviour Scale for Sports (CBS-S) survey which measured perceived coaching behaviors for each athlete in six different categories. A Pearson's correlation coefficient was used to examine the relationships among all the categories of the survey and the hitting and serving percentages for both schools. The results indicated that there were no significant relationships between the perceived coaching behaviors and the hitting and serving percentages of the collegiate volleyball players from either program.