Review of value system of croatian footbal coaches

Abstract

The paper presents the survey results of the (self)assessment of
Croatian football coaches (N=139). In the research the author used
the Schwartz questionnaire Portrait Values Questionnaire (2001,
PVQ). The research was carried out in 2017 in cooperation with
the Croatian Football Academy, and the results show that Croatian
coaches highly value benevolence (M=4,89), universalism (4,75),
independence (4,76) and safeness (M=4,24). The values that reflect
the orientation of an individual toward himself – like power (M=3,13),
achievement (M=3,98), hedonism (M=3,99) were rated by the trainers
on average by lower grades. The analysis of the results also
shows that there are differences in the value selection among the
coaches’ subgroups (UEFA A, UEFA B and UEFA PRO). Although
benevolence is in the first place to all subgroups, coaches differ in
the values of tradition, achievement, hedonism, safety and conformism.
Schwartz’s model does not show satisfactory metric characteristics
on the selected specific sample of the examinees. The results
demonstrated that on the total sample of all coaches as well as of
the coach groups, the factor structure of the value is only partly in
accordance with Schwartz’s theory of universal contents and value
structure.