The purpose of this study was to explore potential changes throughout a competitive season on student-athletes' perceptions of their relationships with new coaches, based on the team's success during the season. It was hypothesized that student-athletes' perceptions would significantly improve when they experienced a successful season, more so than student-athletes who experienced a non-successful season. A total of forty-eight female collegiate team sport student-athletes from a Division I university participated in this study. At the beginning and end of the season, participants completed the long direct Coach-Athlete Relationship Questionnaire (CART-Q; Jowett & Ntoumanis, 2004; Rhind & Jowett, 2008), which examines the closeness, commitment and complementarity of the coach-athlete relationship. Results indicated significant changes in the interactions for the closeness and commitment dependent variables, with the non-successful group's scores significantly decreasing, while the successful group's scores did not significantly change. Findings from this study indicate that aspects of the student-athletes' perceptions of the coach-athlete relationship may change throughout the competitive season relative to the team's success.
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