| This study investigated the relationship between collegiate athletes and their coaches' perceived communication competence. Participants consisted of varsity level student-athletes (n=135; 62 men and 73 women) and their coaches (n=40; 31 men and 6 women, 3 did not respond) from an NCAA Division I institution in the Mountain Region of the United States. Perceptions of coaches and athletes on coach communication competence were examined to determine differences in groups as measured by the Communicator Competence Questionnaire (CCQ; Monge et al., 1981), Interpersonal Communication Competence Scale (ICCS; Rubin et al., 1993), and Scale for Effective Communication in Sports Teams (SECST; Sullivan, 2000). Results indicated that coaches perceived themselves as more communicatively competent than athletes based on the encoding and decoding factors of the CCQ. There was no significant difference (p>.05) between coaches' and athletes' perceptions on the ICCS or SECST. |
