IOSR Journal of Sports and Physical Education (IOSR-JSPE), cilt.4, sa.01, ss.49-53, 2017 (Hakemli Dergi)
This study’s purpose is to prove the communication skills levels of football trainers according to
perceptions of football players. The universe of the research is formed by 178 football players who participated
in the football tournament amongst the second league universities in Şanlıurfa between 30th April and 5th May in
2013. The sample of the research is composed of 117 football players who took part in the research voluntarily.
The data of the study were collected with ‘Trainer Communication Skills Scale’ ’in the type of 5-Likert,
consisting of 48 items and one size which was developed by Yılmaz and his colleagues. Arithmetic mean and
Anova tests were used in statistical analysis of the study. According to the results obtained in this descriptive
study, the level of communication skills of the trainers was adequate but at the level required to be developed
(X=3, 96± .523). In addition, according to the results of the research, the communication skills levels of the
coaches of ages between 18-21 years were found to be higher than the ages of 22-25 and 26-and above age
groups.