We conducted this study to classify coaches based on coaching skills promoting life skills acquisition, as Tsubosaka et al. (2024) identified. These skills consist of four aspects: coaching that promotes visualization, gratitude, spontaneous action, and goal achievement, considered essential, cross-disciplinary coaching skills. This study classified coaches based on these patterns of coaching skills to analyze the characteristics and the acquisition of these skills among coaches from middle school, high school, and university sports programs in the Kansai and Kanto regions (N = 551, 458 men and 93 women; M = 41.9 years, SD = 10.9, effective response rate: 97.5%). A large-scale cluster analysis revealed five clusters: “Less Coaching to Promote Spontaneous Action” (n = 138), “Less Coaching to Promote Visualization” (n = 116), “Less Overall Coaching” (n = 87), “Less Coaching to Promote Gratitude” (n = 123), and “High Overall Coaching” (n = 87). These findings contribute to developing coaching skill programs tailored to actual sports education conditions.
TSUBOSAKA et al. (Mon,) studied this question.