Coaching literature assumes that people undergo personal change through coaching. We contend that different types of change may occur with coaching and investigate whether this is the case in reflection (a key competence in coaching). Results from our sample of 61 coachees indicate that three types of change (alpha, beta, gamma) are observed across participants. Alpha change refers to a substantive change in reflection (i.e. an increase or decrease), beta to a recalibration of one's assessment of reflection and gamma to a re-conceptualization of reflection. We further examine implicit person theory (IPT) as a predictor and perceived coaching utility as a correlate of the three types of change. We observe a higher probability that incremental IPT will associate with alpha change versus other types of change, and that beta and gamma changes correlate positively and negatively, respectively, with perceived utility for work. No significant correlations are observed between types of change and perceived utility for personal development. Our study represents an exploratory contribution to a better understanding of the within-person changes in reflection following coaching intervention, and has implications for both theory and practice, which we discuss along with indications for future directions.

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教练有什么变化？调查反思中的人内变化、内隐人理论的预测作用以及对教练感知效用的影响

教练文献假设人们通过教练经历个人改变。我们认为教练可能会发生不同类型的变化，并调查反思（教练的关键能力）是否是这种情况。我们的 61 名教练员样本的结果表明，在参与者中观察到了三种类型的变化（alpha、beta、gamma）。阿尔法变化是指反射的实质性变化（即增加或减少），贝塔是对反射评估的重新校准，伽马是对反射的重新概念化。我们进一步研究了内隐人理论 (IPT) 作为预测因素和感知教练效用作为三种变化类型的关联。我们观察到，与其他类型的变化相比，增量 IPT 与 alpha 变化相关的可能性更高，并且 beta 和 gamma 变化分别与感知的工作效用呈正相关和负相关。在个人发展的变化类型和感知效用之间没有观察到显着的相关性。我们的研究代表了对更好地理解教练干预后反思中的内在变化的探索性贡献，并且对理论和实践都有影响，我们将与未来方向的迹象一起讨论。