Coaches are the people responsible for helping athletes work towards
achieving their full potential. The influence of coaches is associated with
positive impacts on athletes by enhancing their performance, character
development, athlete satisfaction and other various positive outcomes. In
order to develop successful athletes, coaches need to have a high level of
coaching efficacy. Many factors may affect coaching efficacy, such as
coaching education and experience, and it might play a part in the ability of
coaches in coaching their athletes. Hence, the purpose of this study is to
determine the impact of coaching experience and education on coaching
efficacy among Malaysian collegiate coaches. A total of 331 coaches for
SUKIPT 2016 were involved in this study. The Coaching Efficacy Scale
(CES) questionnaire was used to measure the coaches coaching efficacy.
Overall, Malaysian collegiate coaches showed that their level of coaching
efficacy was high for all subscales, namely character building (M=7.92,
SD=.83), technique (M=7.91, SD=.89), game strategy (M=7.80, SD=.93), and
motivation (M=7.79, SD=.83). Furthermore, study shows that there was a
medium positive correlation between coaching experience (r=.37, n=331,
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