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An investigation into the coach - athlete relationship. This research looks specifically at the relationship when the coach is a family member and uses semi-structured interview technique to gather data.
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Advanced Research Method Task 3 Research Topic: An investigation into the coach - athlete relationship. This research looks specifically at the relationship when the coach is a family member and uses semi-structured interview technique to gather data. Early sport psychology researchers relied mainly on traditional, scientific approaches and although a large knowledge base has been established from these studies what has been neglected is to better understand behaviours and experiences of people in sport. Even as far back as 1979 a psychologist named Raner Martens recognised the gap between laboratory and field research. (Hardy et al 2002 ) He called for research into sport-specific theories from field-based research and for a sacrifice of internal validity for more external validity. He argued that at that time there was a divide between 'academic' and 'practising' sport psychology and the reason for this divide was because positivistic research was the only accepted way to study psychological phenomenon....
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