ABSTRACT While the percentage of women head coaches of collegiate teams has consistently declined since 1972, the number of women assistant coaches continues to rise and currently represents the largest group of women employed in college athletics. Because the positions of head coach and assistant coach place similar demands on the women in these roles, the differing trends for these positions are perplexing. Utilizing a framework of role congruity theory and symbolic interactionism, this study considers whether women are clustered in the assistant role because head and assistant coach positions are gender typed, with the head coach being masculine typed and the assistant coach being feminine typed. 403 male and female college athletes were asked to match gender traits with either an assistant coach or a head coach. Results show that masculine traits are aligned with head coaches more than assistant coaches.

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性别角色期望和女性担任助理教练的普遍性

摘要尽管自1972年以来，女大学生主教练的比例一直在下降，但女助理教练的人数仍在增加，目前代表大学运动中雇用的最大女性群体。由于担任这些职务的总教练和助理教练的职位对女性的要求相似，因此这些职位的不同趋势令人困惑。本研究利用角色融合理论和符号互动主义的框架，考虑了女性是否聚集在助理角色中，因为主管和助理教练的职位是性别类型的，而主教练是男性型的，助理教练是女性型的。要求403名男女大学生运动员通过助理教练或主教练来匹配性别特征。