| The National Collegiate Athletic Association oversees almost half a million student-athletes, as well as countless more coaches. These student-athletes spend a great amount of time with their coaches, interacting and communicating with them interpersonally every day. This large amount of time in turn influences a student-athlete's satisfaction with life and well-being overall in college athletics. This research argues that aspects of interpersonal communication, including caring and goodwill, social attraction, interpersonal dominance, and task-orientation will influence the relationship between a student-athlete and his or her coach. Moreover, this relationship will then impact the student-athlete's satisfaction with life and well-being. It revealed that the all factors of the interpersonal communication but interpersonal dominance, were considered were significant predictors of the aspects of the relationship, and also leading to a significance in the student-athlete satisfaction with life. This article introduces the relation between the communication, to a relationship, to then a student-athletes well-being, within the sport world. |
