Following development of the CBAS, field studies were conducted to establish relations between coaching behaviors and children’s evaluative reactions. Describe the basic research procedures, and discuss the major findings with respect to

(a) the role of winning relative to athletes’ psychosocial outcome measures,

(b) relations between coaching behaviors and athletes’ attitudinal responses,

(c) the degree of accuracy with which coaches perceived their own behaviors, and

(d) the role of self-esteem as a mediator variable in coaching-behavior/

athlete-attitude relations.