Coach Effectiveness and Personality Assessments: An Exploratory Analysis of Thin Slice Interpersonal Perceptions

This research examined accuracy, consensus, and self-other agreement of personality assessments and coaching effectiveness based on thin-slice judgments of 30-second video clips of 9 recreation level coaches. Two hundred and six naive raters viewed the clips and rated the targets on coaching effectiveness and personality attributes. Ratings of coaching effectiveness were correlated with expert ratings of effectiveness to measure accuracy. The ratings of attributes were correlated with expert ratings of the same attributes to measure consensus. Gender, race, and level of sport participation of naive raters was subjected to independent sample t-tests and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) to determine if they moderated thin-slice judgments. Results indicated that naive raters as a group were not accurate in assessment of coaching effectiveness, nor were there significant correlations on consensus or self-other agreement. There were significant differences between levels of sport participation groups on two of the fourteen attributes: competence and confidence.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Kinesiology (M.S.)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis (open access)

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Department of Health and Kinesiology

Year dc:date.available

2006

Author dc:creator

• Knight, Jennifer Lynne

Contributors dc:contributor

• A. Barry Joyner
• Jonathan N. Metzler
• Alan D. Zwald

• ETD
• Thin-slicing
• Coaching Effectiveness
• Consensus
• Accuracy
• Coaching (Athletics)

Repository record dc:identifier

https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/etd/75

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu:etd-1075