Due to the large amount of time coaches spend with their athletes it is surprising, emotions such as shame, humiliation, and embarrassment, can be felt by an athlete without a coach even realizing the impact that their behavior has on the athlete. For this reason, understanding the mechanism or causes for athletes' feelings of shame may help coaches become more aware of their behaviors. The purpose of this study is three fold (illustrated in Figure 1.1 ): (1) will be to explore the relationships of coaches' behaviors on female college athletes' feelings of shame in game and practice settings, and the athletes' shame-coping responses to these feelings. (2) To explore whether the shame-coping responses mediate relationships between coaches' behaviors and adaptive outcomes (trying harder, proving coach wrong, etc.) or maladaptive outcomes (burnout, quitting, etc.) in female athletes. (3) To discover if having a scholarship or being a starter play a role in outcomes of shame.
