Relationship between perceived coach-athlete communication and motivational climate among KARiSMA team sport athletes / Syaherra Sadzali

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between perceived coach-athlete communication and motivational climate among KARiSMA team sport athletes. Sample size for this study was 360 participants (N=360) KARiSMA team sport athletes. The Coach-Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (CART-Q) (Jowett and Ntoumanis, 2004) and The Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport scale (PMCS) (Walling, Duda and Chi, 1993) to collect the data. The data were examined by using descriptive statistics and Spearman correlation analysis. Relevant analysis shows that it is related to teamwork and can help team members master teamwork, cooperation and improvement intimacy with coaches, greater commitment and complementarity. These finding indicate that coach-athlete communication and mastery (task) were linearly correlated to each other. Hence, there a no significant between coach-athlete communication and performance (ego) besides closeness variable.