Supported or pressured? An examination of agreement among parent's and children on parent's role in youth sports.
Year: 2008
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The overall purpose of this study was to provide additional evidence that parental attitudes and behavior influence their children's affective reactions from sport participation and to examine the relative importance of parent-child agreement on both the quantity and quality of parent involvement. Within the context of youth sports it appears from the results of this study that parents have incongruent views to those of their children with regard to behaviors perceived as exerting pressure and support. An examination of mean scores for parent and child participants showed that parent's perception ofthe amount of pressure they imposed on their child were consistently lower than the scores reported by their children. The results also indicated that the child's general feelings about hockey was negatively correlated with pressure from fathers and positively correlated with their perception of hockey. Multiple regression results showed that children's perceptions of parental pressure from fathers was the only significant predictor of general enjoyment in hockey. The results of this exploratory investigation indicate that parent-child agreement may be an important predictor ofthe affective outcomes typically associated with youth sports participation.
Authors: Michael A. Kanters, Jonathan M. Casper
Institution: North Carolina State University
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2226351308