Verbal encouragement in coaching: enhancing small-sided game performance in youth basketball players
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Alternative codes found
RIV/00216224:14110/25:00143754
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1512803/full" target="_blank" >https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1512803/full</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1512803" target="_blank" >10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1512803</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Verbal encouragement in coaching: enhancing small-sided game performance in youth basketball players
Original language description
Background Verbal coach encouragement is a key motivational strategy that enhances skill development, game strategy execution, and team cohesion. In youth basketball, where players are still developing technical and decision-making abilities, coach encouragement can play a crucial role in sustaining effort, improving focus, and fostering resilience under small-sided games (SSGs). This study investigated how coach encouragement (CE) influences young basketball players' technical performance and psychophysiological responses during competitive gameplay.Methods Sixteen male basketball players (age = 15.19 +/- 1.05 years) voluntarily participated in the study. Heart rate, ratings of perceived exertion, mood states and technical activities were recorded with coach encouragement and without coach encouragement during SSGs.Results The results showed that SSGs with coach encouragement were associated with significantly higher heart rate (p <= 0.05, d = 1.69), maximum heart rate percentage (p <= 0.05, d = 1.15), ratings of perceived exertion (p <= 0.05, d = 1.69), enjoyment (p <= 0.007, d = 0.86), technical abilities (e.g., successful passes and shots; p <= 0.05, d ranging from 1.08 to 1.25), and fatigue (p <= 0.03, d = 1.47).Conclusion The findings of this study highlight the importance of CE in improving the psychophysiological and technical abilities of young basketball players during SSGs. CE improves coach-athlete relationships and increases game performance.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50101 - Psychology (including human - machine relations)
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Frontiers in Psychology
ISSN
1664-1078
e-ISSN
1664-1078
Volume of the periodical
16
Issue of the periodical within the volume
FEB 2025
Country of publishing house
CH - SWITZERLAND
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
1512803
UT code for WoS article
001441050600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105000232607