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Verbal Aggression and Marital Satisfaction among College Basketball Coaches

People often look at how successful college basketball coaches are on the court, but what they don’t look at is the coach’s problems in their marital life. College basketball coaches have one of the highest divorce rates in the country today. There are several reasons why college basketball coaches have such a high divorce rate. The life of a college basketball coach is so stressful, one really can’t imagine it unless one is college coach. There is large number of coaches who are successful on the court, but not at home. This is a profession that I would like to go into. We need to find out why college basketball coaches have such a high divorce rate?
The purpose of this study is to determine whether verbal aggression of college basketball coaches is related to their marital satisfaction. I think the more verbally aggressive a basketball coach is on the court the more marital problems the coach will have with his or her spouse.
The justification that I will use for my study is the solving of a practical problem. Since college basketball coaches have such a high divorce rate we need to find out why this is and try to improve these statistics. College basketball coaches have to put their marital relationships second to their job. This is a subject that needs immediate help.
In order to understand the research that I would like to do, I need to break down the variables. My independent variable is verbal aggression. My dependent variable is marital satisfaction. I am comparing whether a verbally aggressive coach at work is the same way at home, if so does the coach have marital problems. My hypothesis is that the more verbally aggressive a coach is the more marital problems the coach will have.
Verbal aggression and marital satisfaction had to be broken down into four independent words. Verbal means consisting of words alone without...