Comparing Predictors of Client Satisfaction and Predictors of Breaches in Community Corrections: An Application of the Dual-Role Relationship Inventory Revised

“It’s Not Just Your Dad, It’s Not Just Your Coach…” The Dual-Relationship in Female Tennis Players

The Sport Psychologist ◽

10.1123/tsp.2014-0049 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 224-236 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Olivier N. Schmid ◽

Malayna Bernstein ◽

Vanessa R. Shannon ◽

Catherine Rishell ◽

Catherine Griffith

Keyword(s):

Dual Role ◽

Narrative Approach ◽

Tennis Players ◽

Role Relationship ◽

Dual Relationship ◽

Role Relationships ◽

Volunteer Coaches ◽

Insight Into

Tennis has been identified as an ideal context for examining the dynamics of parenting and coaching relationships (Gould et al., 2008) but coaching dual-role relationships remain unexplored in this sport and related investigations only included volunteer coaches (Jowett, 2008; Harwood & Knight, 2012). An open-ended interview approach was used to examine how female tennis players previously coached by their fathers (professional coaches) before competing in college tennis perceived their experiences with the dual-role relationship and the coaching transition. A holistic narrative approach was used to reconstruct retrospectively the stories of the participants’ experiences and understand their development. Despite some beneficial aspects, a majority of participants emphasized their challenging experiences with regards to their needs to manage blurred boundaries, receive paternal approval, and endure their fathers’ controlling and abusive behaviors. Coaching transitions helped normalize father-daughter relationships and provided insight into the respective needs that were fulfilled through the dual-role relationships.

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Speaker or listener or speaker and listener

Language and Dialogue ◽

10.1075/ld.3.2.02sta ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 167-185 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Stefanie Alexa Stadler

Keyword(s):

Intercultural Communication ◽

Meaning Construction ◽

Dual Role ◽

Mutual Understanding ◽

Shared Understanding ◽

Considerable Effort ◽

Creation Process ◽

Role Relationship ◽

Meaning Creation ◽

Intracultural Communication

Communication requires a considerable effort in order to facilitate and indeed reach shared understanding between interlocutors. This is even more important in intercultural communication, where our normal cues fail to function and shared background may be incomplete or altogether absent. Seeing as we can no longer rely on our usual meaning construction tools, we have to work harder than in intracultural communication to derive and deliver meaning. As a consequence, it is not sufficient to carry out the usual speaker and listener roles, in which the speaker holds a more active and the listener a more receptive participative role. Instead, both speaker and listener have to work together in a joint, collaborative and contemporaneous effort to create mutual understanding. This paper explores why there is a need in intercultural communication to fulfil a dual role relationship in the meaning creation process, how this can be achieved in intercultural discourse and how it can benefit interlocutors.

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