Coach’s Perception of Parent’s Attitudes in School-Age Sports

Santos Villafaina, Eugenio Merellano-Navarro and Juan M. García-Ceberino
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Santos Villafaina: Physical Activity and Quality of Life Research Group (AFYCAV), University of Extremadura, 10003 Caceres, Spain
Eugenio Merellano-Navarro: Grupo de Investigación en Educación Física, Salud y Calidad de Vida (EFISAL), Universidad Autónoma de Chile, Talca 3460000, Chile
Juan M. García-Ceberino: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Isabel I, 09003 Burgos, Spain

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 20, 1-11

Abstract: The coach-parent relationship can significantly influence the sport participation, personal development, and sports performance of young athletes. This study aimed to investigate the coach’s perception of parent’s attitudes regarding competition attitude, the communication with the coach, and the environment during training sessions, taking into account the coaches’ sex, type of institution, or sport modality grouped into individual and collective sports. For this, a total of 159 coaches (22 females and 137 males) responded to the Questionnaire for Sports Coaches about their Opinion on the Attitudes of Fathers and Mothers in Sports (CTPMD). It analyses three factors: (1) competition attitude, (2) communication, and (3) environment. A Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) was necessary to assess the model’s goodness of fit on each factor and to calculate the Cronbach’s Alpha, the average variance extracted, and the composite reliability to analyze the instrument reliability. Descriptive and inferential analysis was performed through the Mann-Whitney U and Rosenthal r statistical tests. The results showed significant differences in the competition attitude factor regarding type of institution ( U = 1964.500; p -value < 0.001; r = 0.31), in favour of public institutions. There were also significant differences in the communication factor according to the coaches’ sex ( U = 1112.000; p -value = 0.04; r = 0.16), with females’ coaches perceiving worse communication with parents than male coaches. This could be relevant because it negatively influences adherence to physical activity in children and adolescents, and therefore, their health.

Keywords: communication; competition attitude; environment; institution type; sex (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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