Table 2.

Reliability of coach communication competence, sport passion, and ego-resilience.

Construct	Subscale	Cronbach’s α (subscale)	Cronbach’s α (overall)
Coach communication competence (CCA)	Response and analysis (Items 1, 3–17)	0.974	0.969
	Understanding and memory (Items 18–25)	0.907
Sport passion (SP)	Harmonious passion (Items 1–6)	0.895	0.944
	Obsessive passion (Items 7–14)	0.950
Ego-resilience (ER)	Emotional regulation (Items 11–20, 25)	0.937	0.942
	Positive thinking (Items 1–5, 10)	0.931
	Goal orientation (Items 21–24, 30, 31)	0.869
	Negative emotion (Items 6–8)	0.890
	Communication style (Items 28, 29, 32)	0.663

Cronbach’s α indicates internal consistency reliability. Item numbers refer to the final retained items.