RELATIONSHIP OF COACH TYPE TO LIFE SKILLS DEVELOPMENT Rizki Burstiando1*, Amung Ma^mun2, Komarudin3, Yudy Hendrayana4
Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia, Sport Education, Post Graduate
rizkiburst[at]upi.edu
Abstract
Life skills are considered as an important thing in going through all changes in the future. Several recent studies state that sport is the best means to develop life skills (Hemphill et al., 2019). (Mossman et al., 2021) stated that there is a significant relationship between coaches and life skills. However, in this study, it is still not known what type of coach can develop the life skills of the athlete. This study aims to examine the relationship between authoritarian and democratic coach on the athletes life skills. The research design used a correlation study conducted at a petanque sports club with a total of 18 athletes, consisting of 11 male and 7 female with an age range of 12-21 years. The instrument used to measure is a Life Skills Questionnaire which contains 47 questions from (Cronin & Allen, 2017) and the coach type which consists of 4 statements for the authoritarian type and 9 statements for the democratic type (Chelladurai & Saleh, 1980). Data analysis used partial and simultaneous correlation test, all data were normally distributed with authoritarian type(0.687), democratic type(0.894), life skills(0.565). In partial hypothesis testing, it was found that the authoritarian type of coach did not have a significant relationship with life skills with a significance of 0.220. Then for the democratic type has a significant relationship with life skills with a significance of 0.007. Furthermore, simultaneously it was found that both types of coach were associated with life skills with a significance of 0.026. This is in accordance with the opinion of (Hemphill et al., 2019) that training programs with humanist coachs have a significant impact on positive athlete development. This study has several limitations including the number of samples and sports. It is hoped that further research can use more samples and sports.
Keywords: Life skill sport, authoritarian coach, democracy coach, type coach
