Relationships between coaching competencies and team cohesion among COBRA Rugby Club athlete / Sarah Syafiqah Mohammad Soffian

A study about the relationship between coaching competencies and team cohesion that were lack and not clearly discussed in the previous literature. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between coaching competencies and team cohesion among COBRA Rugby Club athlete. There were I 08 respondents from 150 populations in rugby athletes. Participants were asked to complete answering the questionnaire for Coaching Competency (CCS) and the Team Cohesion (GEQ). There were four dimension in coaching competency which were motivation, game strategy, coaching technique and character building while for team cohesion divided by two dimension which were task and social. Results indicate that motivation was a significant correlated and task also a significant correlated. Other factors were not significant correlation. The findings suggest that coach motivation through two-ways communication with athlete is an important role to the perfonnance. In addition, it is important that each of these factors were constantly affecting each other and it could frequently change depending on the perfonnance of the team.