Mindful Engagement Mediates the Relationship Between Motivational Climate Perceptions and Coachability for Male High School Athletes

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Susumu Iwasaki Fort Lewis College

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Candace M. Hogue Pennsylvania State University

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1123/jcsp.2020-0016
Keywords:
achievement goal theory; caring climate; mindfulness; task-involving climate; youth sport
First Published Online:
09 Sep 2021
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Volume 16: Issue 3
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234–253
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The purpose of this study was to examine the mediating role of mindful engagement in the relationship between male high school athletes’ motivational climate perceptions on their teams (i.e., caring, task-, and ego-involving climate) to athlete coachability. Athletes (N = 164, Mage = 15.58 years) from multiple sports completed measures assessing mindful engagement in sport (Cognitive and Affective Mindfulness Scale—Revised), Caring Climate Scale, task- and ego-involving climate perceptions (Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire), and coachability (Athletic Coping Skills Inventory). Initial bivariate correlations linked mindful engagement and coachability positively with perceptions of a caring and task-involving climate and negatively with ego-involving climate perceptions. Structural equation modeling analyses then revealed mindful engagement mediated the relationship between climate and coachability. Encouraging coaches and players to foster a caring/task-involving climate might assist in enhancing athletes’ mindful engagement in sport, which may positively influence the degree to which they are coachable.

Iwasaki is with the Department of Health and Human Performance, Fort Lewis College, Durango, CO, USA. Fry is with the Health, Sport & Exercise Science Department, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA. Hogue is with the Kinesiology Program, Pennsylvania State University, Harrisburg, PA, USA.

Iwasaki (siwasaki@fortlewis.edu) is corresponding author.
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