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- PublicationOpen AccessEducating coaches: Developing human capital in an emerging industry(2008-11)Chew, Eugene Wai CheongThe Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) established that human capital development is one of the essential inputs that contribute significantly to the economic and human well-being of a nation. Investing in human capital is therefore a necessity for industry development and economic growth.
Sports is an emerging industry sector. In Asia-Pacific market alone, experts projected a 77% growth in the sports market from US$13.7 billion in 2006 to US$17.7 billion in 2011. As Singapore positions itself to capture this potential market through government’s support and investment in developing the sports sector mainly through infrastructure development and sports events programming, it is critical that ample attention be paid to the development of human capital. Industry development requires more competent manpower in various disciplines.
Sports coaching is an identified area for human capital to be developed. This paper examines the policy and structural changes that affect coach education in Singapore. Together with an environmental scan of coach education in a few leading countries, it explores ways to provide more avenues as well as relevant approaches for professional development of coaches. The paper concludes with a call for careful attention to be given to the following:
1. Leadership in national-level sports policy on coaching development and coach education; 2. Alignment and synergy in sports policy and educational policy in supporting further development of human capital in the sports coaching; and 3. The role of tertiary educational institutions in providing avenues for professional development of coaches 4. Further professional development of coaches at higher education level should pay attention to the approach to be adopted and be both relevant and contextualized to the coaching practice.123 162 - PublicationOpen AccessParents as social context in youth sport: A validation of the PASCQ with adolescent Singapore athletes(2013)
;Chew, Eugene Wai CheongThe purpose of this study was to validate the factorial validity of the Parents as Social Context Questionnaire for investigating parental influence in youth sport in a non-western cultural context. Data were collected from 258 secondary student athletes in Singapore. Using confirmatory factor analyses, the model fit for the hypothesised six-factor model was compared against that of the highly plausible alternative three-factor model. Analyses showed that scores obtained from the questionnaire are best represented by six unipolar factors and exhibited evidence of measurement model validity. Findings also indicated that the constructs of chaos and coercion as assessed by the questionnaire may not be perceived as distinct by the participants. The factorial validity of the questionnaire is supported by the findings. However, careful examination of the scores from the chaos and coercion subscales in future use of the questionnaire in a similar context is advised.311 351 - PublicationOpen AccessPerceptions of parental autonomy support and control, and aspirations of student athletes in Singapore(2008)
;Chew, Eugene Wai Cheong153 742 - PublicationRestrictedPerceptions of parenting dimensions : its relations to motivation, life aspirations, and subjective well-being among adolescent athletes(2011)Chew, Eugene Wai CheongAdolescents' relationships with their parents constitute important social and emotional resources for further development. Studies conducted mainly in the academic and socialisation settings have shown that authoritative parenting style is associated with positive adolescent outcomes. However, in the sports domain, there is a dearth of studies examining the influence of parenting dimensions, as disaggregated components of parenting style, on the optimal development of student athletes. Self-determination theory (SDT) provides the theoretical framework for investigating, as well as explaining, the psychological processes underlying the influence of parenting dimensions on student athletes' motivational outcomes and well-being.
The present study, comprising four studies, examined the relationships between student athletes' perceptions of the six core parenting dimensions and motivational outcomes and well-being. In Study 1, confirmatory factor analyses validated the factorial validity of the Parents As Social Context (PASC) scale, and established that parental autonomy support, structure, warmth, coercion, chaos, and rejection are unipolar and distinct constructs. Using different methodological approaches, results of the subsequent three studies, together, showed that positive parenting dimensions (autonomy support, structure and warmth) were positively related to greater psychological needs satisfaction, more autonomous sport motivation, intrinsic aspirations, and greater subjective well-being.
Specifically, key results from the person-centred approach to data analysis in Study 2 showed that two subgroups (LPA Group 1 and 2) of student athletes with distinctive profiles of perceived parenting dimensions were linked with significantly different levels of psychological needs satisfaction, sport motivation, and intrinsic aspirations. The student athletes from the High Positive/Low Negative Parental Influence group (LPA Group 2) had significantly higher levels of psychological needs satisfaction, sport motivation, and intrinsic aspirations than those student athletes from the Low Positive/High Negative Parental Influence group (LPA Group 1). Two other subgroups of student athletes were discovered. LPA Group 3 exemplifies the case where student athletes perceived a parenting environment that is neither supportive of (low positive parenting dimensions) nor non-conducive to (moderately low negative parenting dimensions) psychological needs satisfaction which appears to reflect student athletes' perceptions of unengaged parents as classified by Baumrind (1991a). LPA Group 4 comprised student athletes who perceived their parents as having a mixed parenting style which is both supportive (moderately high positive parenting dimensions) and debilitating (high negative parenting dimensions) in relation to psychological needs satisfaction. Closer scrutiny of the characteristics of these two subgroups suggests that positive parenting dimensions are important predictors of psychological needs satisfaction.
In Study 3, descriptive characteristics of the parent-child relationships and how parents motivated their child, derived from semi-structured interviews of student athletes and their parents from each of the four emerged subgroups, corroborated and provided insights into, the main findings in Study 2.
In Study 4, consistent with SDT, mediation analysis of the hypothesised model with latent variables showed that positive parenting dimensions (autonomy support, structure, warmth) had significant positive indirect effects on subjective well-being through psychological needs satisfaction per se, and through multi-step mediation via psychological needs satisfaction and intrinsic aspirations. The negative indirect effects of coercion and rejection on subjective well-being were only partially mediated by these two aforementioned mediators. In conclusion, the present study showed that the positive parenting dimensions are important in enhancing student athletes' psychological health, motivation, intrinsic aspirations, and well-being, and that both psychological needs satisfaction and intrinsic aspirations were significant mediators of the effects of parenting dimensions on subjective well-being whereas extrinsic aspirations were not a significant mediator between the effects of parenting dimensions on subjective well-being.266 48