Coaches have been shown to play key roles in the life-skills development and transfer process. The purpose of the study was to examine coaches’ approaches to teaching life skills and their transfer in youth sport. A multiple case study design was employed. Each case was composed of one coach and at least two of their athletes involved in youth baseball, rugby, soccer, and sailing. The data collection involved pre- and postseason interviews and in-season journaling with coaches, as well as postseason interviews with athletes. The results indicated that the coaches predominantly used implicit approaches, with just over half identified as using some explicit approaches to teach life skills. The coaches discussed several factors that influenced their decisions to use or not use explicit life-skills teaching approaches. The results have implications for future research and applied efforts aimed at maximizing the developmental gains athletes can derive from their participation in sport.

实践证明，教练在生活技能的发展和转移过程中起着关键作用。这项研究的目的是研究教练在青年体育中教授生活技能及其转移的方法。采用了多案例研究设计。每个案例由一名教练和至少两名参与青少年棒球，橄榄球，足球和帆船运动的运动员组成。数据收集包括季前和季后采访以及教练的季节日志，以及季后赛对运动员的采访。结果表明，教练主要使用隐式教学法，其中一半以上被确定为使用一些显式教学法来教授生活技能。教练们讨论了影响他们决定是否使用明确的生活技能教学方法的几个因素。