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Fall 2021
The overall purpose of this dissertation was to explore flourishing among Canadian university student-athletes and coaches. This was addressed via three studies. The purpose of the first study was to investigate mental health protective and risk factors among flourishing Canadian university...
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Master & student: an investigation of the methods of negotiating teacher-student relationships in the martial arts
DownloadFall 2011
This thesis is an ethnographic comparison of two martial arts training systems, with the goal of discovering what methods martial arts teachers employ to define and negotiate relationships with their students. Informed by the approaches employed by previous martial arts scholars, this study uses...
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Fall 2017
This study examined how model youth football coaches developed their leadership styles. Six model youth football coaches (M age = 46 years, SD = 6), and one athlete from each stage of the coaches’ careers (early, middle, recent; n = 18, M age = 24 years, SD = 4) were purposefully sampled. Each...
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Fall 2013
Abstract This case study explores the coaching behavior of Clare Drake, an exemplary university hockey coach. The research identified qualities contributing to his influence. Data included written documentation; three informal conversational style interviews and one semi-structured interview with...