Exploring Personality Traits in Elite Coach-Athlete Relationships

I speak with Dr Laura Healy and Joseph Stanford in this episode.

Laura is a Senior Lecturer in Sport & Exercise Psychology at Nottingham Trent University. Her research explores how to optimise goal pursuit in sport and physical activity for individuals and teams. This has included examining how the motivation underpinning goal striving can impact upon the self-regulation of goals and well-being.

Recently, Laura has researched in areas associated with elite performance environments, including the role of personality in elite coach-athlete relationships, resilience, psychological safety and fear of failure in a national sport governing body, and the experience of release from professional football academies.

Joseph is a PhD student at Nottingham Trent University, a Performance Swim Coach at University of Nottingham Sport and A squad coach at Nova Centurion - the elite performance programme for Nottinghamshire swimming and one of the UK's top swimming clubs.

Joseph's research focuses on what makes a successful athlete and how coaches and athletes work together to facilitate positive relationships.

As part of his undergraduate degree and continuing in his PhD, Joseph has written a paper along with Laura, Dr Mustafa Sarkar and Dr Julie Johnston entitled "Interpersonal perceptions of personality traits in elite coach-athlete dyads"

You can read the full article the article here https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S146902922200022X