Jean Côté
The purpose of the present study was to describe patterns in the dynamics of families of talented athletes throughout their development in sport. Four families, including three families of elite rowers and one family of an elite tennis player were examined. The framework provided by Ericsson, Krampe...
Jessica Fraser‐Thomas, Jean Côté
The purpose of this study was to gain understanding of adolescents’ positive and negative developmental experiences in sport. Twenty-two purposefully sampled adolescent competitive swimmers participated in a semistructured qualitative interview. Content analysis led to the organization of meaning un...
Joseph Baker, Jean Côté, Bruce Abernethy
(2003). Learning from the Experts: Practice Activities of Expert Decision Makers in Sport. Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport: Vol. 74, No. 3, pp. 342-347.
Karl Erickson, Jean Côté, Jessica Fraser‐Thomas
What experiences are needed to become a high-performance coach? The present study addressed this question through structured retrospective quantitative interviews with 10 team- and 9 individual-sport coaches at the Canadian interuniversity-sport level. Minimum amounts of certain experiences were dee...
Andy Wright, Jean Côté
The purpose of this study was to examine the development of six leader-athletes. In-depth qualitative interviews were used to explore the various activities that leader athletes engaged in from an early age as well as the roles and influences that peers, coaches, and parents played within these acti...
Dany J. MacDonald, Jean Côté, Mark Eys, Janice Deakin
Sport has been identified as a context in which youth encounter positive and negative experiences. However, relatively little is known about the factors that lead to positive and negative personal development among sport participants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of enjoymen...
Leisha Strachan, Jean Côté, Janice Deakin
The purpose of the current study was to examine two different trajectories of sport participation and explore any similarities or differences that may result regarding personal development and sport outcomes. Seventy-four youth athletes (40 “specializers” and 34 “samplers”) were recruited for the cu...
Jennifer Turnnidge, Jean Côté
It is well established that coach learning and athlete outcomes can be enhanced through participation in Coach Development Programs (CDPs). Researchers advocate that the quality of CDPs can be improved by: (a) placing a greater emphasis on facilitating coaches’ interpersonal behaviours (Lefebvre, Ev...
Guillaume Constantin de Magny, Jean‐François Guégan, Michel Petit, Bernard Cazelles
BACKGROUND: The relationship between cholera and climate was explored in Africa, the continent with the most reported cases, by analyzing monthly 20-year cholera time series for five coastal adjoining West African countries: Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, Benin and Nigeria. METHODS: We used wavelet ana...
M. Blair Evans, Ashley Lauren Adler, Dany J. MacDonald, Jean Côté
PURPOSE: Bullying is a specific pattern of repeated victimization explored with great frequency in school-based literature, but receiving little attention within sport. The current study explored the prevalence of bullying in sport, and examined whether bullying experiences were associated with perc...
Sarah Lawrason, Jennifer Turnnidge, Luc J. Martin, Jean Côté
To maximize the effectiveness of coach development, educational programs should target coaches’ interpersonal behaviors, be informed by behavior-change techniques, and incorporate comprehensive evaluation procedures. Thus, informed by the full-range leadership model (see Bass and Riggio in 2006) and...
Michelle McCalpin, M. Blair Evans, Jean Côté
Competitive engineering is a process whereby sport organizations modify the rules, facilities, and equipment involved in sport to facilitate desirable athlete outcomes and experiences. Competitive engineering is being increasingly adopted by youth sport organizations with empirical evidence positive...
Mark W. Bruner, Ian D. Boardley, Veronica Allan, Christopher K Forrest et al.
Social identity has been found to play a salient role in regulating teammate behavior among youth participating in a range of sports (Bruner, Boardley, & Côté, 2014). This study aimed to better understand social identity by examining how it may influence intrateam moral behavior specifically in ...
Paul Garner, Jennifer Turnnidge, Will Roberts, Jean Côté
While recent work recognizes a need for coach education to place greater emphasis on interpersonal knowledge when developing coaching expertise, it is our position that coach educators (CEs) must follow a similar trajectory in embracing the interpersonal knowledge requisite of their role and move be...
André Barreiros, Jean Côté, António Manuel Fonseca
ABSTRACT: With this article, we aim to offer a conceptual synthesis of some of the most important developments in past decades on the subject of \ntalent in sport, while also helping sports stakeholders, particularly managers and coaches, to recognize and apply these conclusions in their practic...