Citation: Norris, L and Didymus, F and Kaiseler, M (2022) How can social support make coaching less stressful? A longitudinal inquiry with sports coaches. International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching. pp. 1-12. ISSN 1747-9541 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/17479541221105763 Link to Leeds Beckett Repository record: https://eprints.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/id/eprint/8673/ Document Version: Article (Accepted Version) Creative Commons: Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 The final version of this paper has been published in International Journal of Sports Science & Coaching, July 2022. All rights reserved c Norris LA, Didymus FF, Kaiseler M. It is available at https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/17479541221105763 The aim of the Leeds Beckett Repository is to provide open access to our research, as required by funder policies and permitted by publishers and copyright law. The Leeds Beckett repository holds a wide range of publications, each of which has been checked for copyright and the relevant embargo period has been applied by the Research Services team. We operate on a standard take-down policy. If you are the author or publisher of an output and you would like it removed from the repository, please contact us and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis. Each thesis in the repository has been cleared where necessary by the author for third party copyright. If you would like a thesis to be removed from the repository or believe there is an issue with copyright, please contact us on openaccess@leedsbeckett.ac.uk and we will investigate on a case-by-case basis.