Aguinaga San José, ÍñigoMartínez Pampliega, AnaSantamaría, TxemiMerino, Laura2025-07-142025-07-142023-04José, I. A. S., Martinez-Pampliega, A., Santamaría, T., & Ramos, L. M. (2023). The coach’s role in young athletes’ emotional competence and psychological well-being. International Journal of Emotional Education, 15(1), 136-151. https://doi.org/10.56300/MCUE402810.56300/MCUE4028https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14454/3213This paper presents a model that analyses the relationship between the coach’s emotional competences and the training climate as predictors of the youngsters’ emotional competences and psychological well-being. In the present study, 309 athletes and 17 coaches participated in the study. A general predictive model was estimated with path analysis and the maximum robust likelihood (MLR) estimation method. The results showed that the coach’s emotional competences are associated with autonomy-supportive climates (β =.15, p <.005). This climate is related to youth’s emotional competences (β =.30, p <.005) and lower emotional (β = -.27, p <.005), behavioural (β = -.51, p <.005), and social (β = -.33, p <.005) symptomatology. These results have important practical implications in designing interventions that promote coaches’ emotional competences given its association with autonomy-supportive climates, which in turn are related to athletes’ emotional competences and psychological well-being.eng© 2023 CRESAthletesAutonomy-supportive climateCoachingMental healthWell-beingjournal article2025-07-142073-7629