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SOCIDEMOGRAPHIC AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF COACHES WITH DIFFERENT TRAINING STYLES 2010 http://ezaposleni.singidunum.ac.rs/rest/sciNaucniRezultati/oai/record/1/4998 LJ. Bačanac N. Petrović N. Manojlović Introduction. Coaches belongs to important adult persons in each athletes life, especially for children and young persons. They are not only instructors of sport’s skills, but they also shape behavior of athletes, their character, boost or humiliate their self esteem, influence to their enjoying sport, influence their behavior, attitudes and general subjective well being. Rewards and punishments are basic methods used by coaches for modeling athletes behavior. Coaches who dominantly use rewards, praises and encourage their athletes are considered as those with positive approach in instructions and training. Negative approach is characterized by criticism and punishment toward athletes, as a basic methods for eliminating nondesirable and reinforcing of desirable behavioral modes Aim and methods. The main objective of this paper is to find correlations between sociodemographic and psychological characteristics of coaches and training styles that they dominantly use in their work with athletes. The sample consist of 350 coaches from Serbia, males and females, from 22 different sports, 19 to 68 years old. The applied questionnaire consists of set of self estimating questions regarding: their inappropriate, aggressive and violent behavior toward athletes and other sport participants; estimation of self exposure to the violence (types and frequencies) from other participants in sport (athletes, athletes' parents, sport's officials, fans), and questions regarding self estimation of their dominant training style. Results and discussion. Analysis of results (ANOVA and χ2-test) shows that coaches who prefer positive approach in their work are also characterized by: longer experience in work with athletes and longer personal sport's internship and career. They are more often from individual and/or non contact sports. This positive approach is more characterized for the coaches who are married then those who are single or divorced, those who have significantly lower trait of general aggressiveness, who are less prone to verbal aggression and feelings of anger and rage. They show little bit higher self esteem and significantly higher flexibility and tolerance then coaches with negative approach. Coaches with negative approach are characterized by significantly higher general potential for aggression, higher verbal aggression, and emotions of anger and rage, but lower self esteem and higher rigidity in interpersonal relations. Conclusions. The obtained results shows that sex, education, material status and working conditions of coaches are not important determinants of their training style. Other factors that determine preference of positive or negative approach to training include: coaches age, their coaching experience, type of sport where they work in and their psychological characteristics. Coaches with negative approach express more unsportsmanlike behavior, more aggressive and not appropriate acts toward athletes and other sport participants. conferenceObject 152 153 Fifth International Scientific Congress „Sport, Stress, Adaptation“