| Abstract: | This study is a one-year follow-up to Raedeke, Granzyk, and Warren's (2000) Raedeke, T. D., Granzyk, T. L. and Warren, A. 2000. Why coaches experience burnout: A commitment perspective. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 22: 85–105. Web of Science ®] , Google Scholar] study on coach burnout from a commitment perspective and was designed to examine whether changes in the theoretical determinants of commitment related to changes in the exhaustion dimension of burnout and commitment level. For this study, 141 swim coaches completed a mail survey two-times one year apart that assessed commitment determinants (i.e., satisfaction, benefits, costs, investments, alternative options, and social constraints), feelings of exhaustion, and commitment. Based on static scores, results revealed that a majority (64%) of coaches were assigned to the same commitment profile at Time 1 and Time 2. From a longitudinal perspective, cluster analysis revealed three coach profiles reflecting increasing attraction to coaching, increasing signs of entrapment, and decreasing coaching interest based on commitment model variables. Subsequent MANOVA results revealed a cluster by time interaction for both exhaustion and commitment. Coaches with characteristics suggesting increased entrapment showed the largest increase in exhaustion whereas those with decreased coaching interest had the lowest commitment. |
