Measure And Intervene The Relationship Between Coaches And Athletes From The Perspective Of Affective Association

Background: The relationship between coaches and athletes has a major impact on athletes' training performance,athletic performance and even their overall career.In the past,most of the research on the coach-athlete relationship was to let athletes directly report their relationship,and then improve relationships by changing coach leadership and management behavior.These methods have certain effectiveness,but such measurements may be affected by factors such as social expectations,and such interventions of improving relationship for coaches are not easy to implement.Objective: This study aims to investigate the relationship between coaches and athletes from the perspective of automated affective association,and to reflect the coach-athlete relationship with the emotion recognition bias of coaches' faces,and to enhance the positive emotion bias on the coach's face through the evaluative conditioning,and thus improve the coach-athlete relationship and thus improve theathletic performance.Methods: This study selected adolescent athletes to be tested,which was developed rapidly by the group's emotional cognition,which is the key period for the cultivation of emotion recognition and emotional adjustment ability.Study 1 measured the emotion recognition bias of coaches' faces,and combined with the explicit and implicit evaluation of the relationship tocertify the reflection of face emotion recognition bias on the coach-athlete relationship.Study 2,the athletes were subjected to a total of 12 interventions for 6 weeks through the evaluative conditioning.The emotion recognition bias of coaches' faces,relationship explicit and implicit evaluation,physiological response to the face,and athletical performance were compared before and after the intervention.Results: The results of pilot study showed that the athletes' emotional scores on the neutral face of the coach were higher than those of herself,indicating that the athletes had the emotion recognition bias of coaches' faces.The results of Study 1 showed that this bias is related to the relationship evaluation.Comparing the coaches of the same team,the athletes who have poorer explicit and implicit evaluation of the relationship,have higher scores on angry,sad,fear and disgust in the facial emotional recognition,and lower score on happy.The results of Study 2 showed that through evaluative conditioning,the athletes in the active intervention group had increased happy recognition(F(3,135)=3.542,p=.022,?_p~2=.198),and the anger and disgust emotion recognition bias remains unchanged(F(3,135)=1.125,p=.350,?_p~2=.073;F(3,135)=.519,p=.672,?_p~2=.035),while the implicit relationship measured by D score,the emotional dimension of the explicit relationship evaluation is better(F(3,135)=20.186,p<.001,?_p~2=.585;F(3,135)=6.427,p=.001,?_p~2=.291);the athletes in the non-intervention group have no change in the recognition bias of the happy(F(3,135)=0.897,p=.450,?_p~2=.059),but the bias toward the anger and disgust is increased,and the implicit and explicit evaluation of the relationship has not changed(F(3,135)=5.462,p=.003,?_p~2=.276;F(3,135)=9.989,p<.001,?_p~2=.411).Conclusion:(1)Affective association can be used to reflect the relationship between athletes and coaches.The athletes have a bias towards the emotional recognition of the coach's neutral face.The worse the relationship between the implicit and explicit relationship is,the more negative the emotion recognition is.(2)The use of evaluative conditioning can improve athletes' affective association with coaches' faces,and the implicit and explicitcoach-athlete relationship.