The construct of care within the coach–athlete relationship has only recently been examined. However, this research has yet to include athletes’ perceptions of caring coaching practice. Thus, the primary purpose of the current study was to examine self-described Christian student-athletes’ perceptions of coach caring practices. Therefore, the guiding research questions were: (a) in what ways do student-athletes feel that their coaches demonstrate care? (b) In what ways have student-athletes’ religion/spirituality shaped the way they understand and perceive care? (c) Does proximity to a caring coach practice—that is, those who are still competing versus those who have graduated—influence the ways in which student-athletes view coach caring? Eleven current and former student-athletes (mean age = 26 years; seven males, four females) from four different sports (basketball, cross country, soccer, and tennis) at one NCCAA school were interviewed. Data analysis was conducted by a six-person research team using Consensual Qualitative Research. Five domains were constructed to represent Christian University 1 student-athlete perceptions of: (I) how they learned coach caring, (II) how they defined a lack of coach caring, (III) how they defined coach caring, (IV) how they perceived the expression of the caring climate, and (V) how they perceived the expression of the Christian caring climate.

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“这不仅仅是一场比赛”：NCCAA 二级学生运动员对教练关怀的看法

教练-运动员关系中的关怀结构最近才被研究。然而，这项研究尚未包括运动员对关怀教练实践的看法。因此，当前研究的主要目的是检查自我描述的基督教学生运动员对教练关怀实践的看法。因此，指导性研究问题是：(a) 学生运动员在哪些方面感到他们的教练表现出关心？(b) 学生运动员的宗教/灵性在哪些方面影响了他们理解和感知关怀的方式？(c) 接近有爱心的教练实践——即那些仍在比赛中的人与那些已经毕业的人——是否会影响学生运动员对教练关怀的看法？11 名现任和前任学生运动员（平均年龄 = 26 岁；7 名男性，来自 NCCAA 一所学校的四种不同运动（篮球、越野、足球和网球）的四名女性接受了采访。数据分析由一个六人研究小组使用共识定性研究进行。构建了五个领域来代表基督教大学 1 学生运动员对以下方面的看法：（I）他们如何学习教练关怀，（II）他们如何定义缺乏教练关怀，（III）他们如何定义教练关怀，（IV）他们如何感知关怀气氛的表现，以及（V）他们如何感知基督徒关怀气氛的表现。