[Profile of childrens' hockey coaches and motives of participation and resignation].

The purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to outline a demographic profile of Quebec minor hockey coaches and (b) to identify their motives of involvement and resignation. A questionnaire was completed by 333 current coaches and by 175 former coaches from the Quebec City area. Results showed that these volunteers are very similar on all counts. They are fathers of at least one boy who is a hockey player, and they come from all socio-economic strata. They are former hockey players and are well aware of the activities of the professional teams. They perceive themselves as being competent coaches and are satisfied with their results. They highly value hockey as a means of education and perceive their own role of volunteer as being an unselfish one geared toward youth education. On the other hand, they perceive the other volunteers' involvement as being self-interested and mainly due to the child's primary participation.