Sports Nutrition and Doping Factors in Synchronized Swimming: Parallel Analysis among Athletes and Coaches

Table 6 Correlations between studied variables among athletes and coaches (* denotes significant correlation coefficients).

		Experience	Education	Sport achievement	Doping in synchro	Doping likelihood	KD	KSN
Education	Athletes	.58 *	-
Education	Coaches	.26	-
Sport achievement	Athletes	.25 *	.17	-
Sport achievement	Coaches	.23	.27	-
Doping in synchro	Athletes	.01	-.06	-.17	-
Doping in synchro	Coaches	.14	.09	-.27	-
Doping likelihood	Athletes	-.11	-.19	-.25 *	-.01	-
Doping likelihood	Coaches	.03	-.10	-.07	-.25	-
KD	Athletes	.38 *	.31	.01	.21	-.52 *	-
KD	Coaches	.46 *	.23	.20	.61 *	-.17	-
KSN	Athletes	.32 *	.24	.12	.00	-.20	.66 *	-
KSN	Coaches	.17	.49 *	.00	.30	-.39	.29	-
Age	Athletes	.73 *	.81 *	.19	.04	-.19	.39 *	.36 *
Age	Coaches	.02	.27	-0.32	.17	-.04	-.13	.13

LEGEND: Experience – experience in synchronized swimming (in years); Education – educational level achieved; Sport achievement – achieved competitive sport result; Doping in synchro – personal opinion about doping behavior in synchronized swimming; Doping likelihood – potential doping behavior; KD – knowledge on doping; KSN – knowledge on sport nutrition; Age – subject–s age.