Enhancing Interpersonal Relationships

Question 1

What does COMPASS stand for in the coach-athlete relationship maintenance model?

Answer 1

Conflict management - approaches to disagreements
Openness - communication, honesty
Motivational - (most frequently mentioned)
Preventative - clarity of expectations from each other
Assurance - feedback to each other
Support - sport and personal
Social networks - socialising

Question 2

Who came up with the COMPASS model?

Answer 2

Rhind and Jowett (2010)

Question 3

What questionnaire was developed by Rhind and Jowett in 2012?

Answer 3

Coach-athlete Relationship Maintenance Questionnaire (CARM-Q)

Question 4

What are 3 strategies of enhancing the parent-child relationship?

Answer 4

1. Behavioural code of conduct
2. Parent education programmes - to clarify parents roles, encourage parental reflection, opportunity for parents to discuss challenges
3. Family-systems approach - understanding how the interaction of familial relationships influence overall family functioning by holding individual & family meetings to identify functional/dysfunctional interactions

Question 5

What are the strategies recommended by Hellstedt (2005) to mainatin/enhance the parent-child relationship?

Answer 5

Education and prevention
Support
Facilitation and challenge

Question 6

What did Howard et al. (2010) report as sources of coaches’ stress in the coach-parent relationship?

Answer 6

Disagreements over childs ability, overinvolved parents with high expectations, parents’ lack of trust and respect for the coaches

Question 7

What did Howard et al. (2010) report as sources of parents’ stress in the coach-parent relationship?

Answer 7

Feedback from coaches on child’s progress, Poor communication, Lack of appreciation of parents’ commitment to sport

Question 8

How can the coach-parent relationship be enhanced? (source?)

Answer 8

Importance of 2-way communication
Hold pre-season coach-parent meetings to improve parents understanding of youth sports and gain their co-operation and support.
Meetings should cover: objectives of youth sport (development not results), details of sport programme, coaching roles and responsibilities, parents responsibilities, coach-parent relations
(Smoll et al, 2011)