The Good Father: Parental Expectations and Youth Sports

By J. Coakley. 2006

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Gender Studies, Social Psychology

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Individual, relationship, and context factors associated with parent support and pressure in organized youth sport. (2016, background): “This is particularly relevant to concordance of perceptions when one parent is disproportionately engaged in a child's sport experiences, which is more often true for fathers, especially as children move from the initiation to the development and mastery stages of participation (Coakley, 2006; Stein”
Parenting in relation to children’s sports participation: generational changes and potential implications (2014, background): “, 2004; Vincent & Ball, 2006), and evidence in the domain of sport has primarily been anecdotal (Coakley, 2009; Evans & Davies, 2010).”
Supported or pressured? An examination of agreement among parent's and children on parent's role in youth sports. (2008, background): “There also seems to be support for the notion that fathers continue to play a more dominant role than mothers in shaping the perceptions and affective outcomes experienced by children in sports (Coakley, 2006).”
Children's engagement in leisure time physical activity: exploring family structure as a determinant (2010, background): “To date, several international reviews and empirical studies have been published that begin to explore children’s contemporary family life, particularly the site of parenting, within a myriad of family formations (e.g. Coakley, 2006; Harrington, 2006; Jenkins & Lyons, 2006).”
Stress in youth sport: A developmental investigation of tennis parents (2009, background): “In addition, 14 Coakley (2006) observed that children’s sporting excellence is often attributed to parents, 15 especially fathers and in this sample some parents disclosed the stress associated with 16 preserving their own public image and avoiding embarrassment through their child’s on court 17…”
Early Sport Specialization (2010, background): “Stracchan, Côté, and Deakin (2009), for example, assessed personal and sport outcomes in 74 young athletes (M age = 13.7 years) who were classified as either “specializers” who trained exclusively in one sport (swimming, gymnastics, or diving) or “samplers” who played multiple sports. The results re”
Youth Sports (2011, background): “This creates a situation in which positive youth development comes to be a matter of personal achievement, an indication of moral worth for the parents who sponsor and nurture participation (Coakley, 2009), and a measure of quality among the clubs that hire coaches and arrange schedules.”
High school athletes’ perspectives on character development through sport participation (2010, background): “Sport participation is assumed by a large number of people in society to automatically lead to positive character building experiences (Bredemeier and Shields 2006 ; Coakley 2006 ).”
Parents in youth sport: what happens after the game? (2017, background): “These ideas may be shaped by aspects of broader society and culture whereby the notion of ‘good parenting’ is represented through children’s participation and achievement in youth sport (Coakley, 2006; Trussell & Shaw, 2012).”
The continued importance of family sport culture for sport participation during the teenage years (2019, methodology): “As several studies have shown, children’s activities are strongly connected to their parents’ wishes and practices; this is not surprising, since ‘family habitus subsumes activities that parents think will best facilitate the development of their children’ (Coakley, 2006, p. 160).”
Parenting experiences in elite youth football: a phenomenological study (2014, neutral): “Coakley (2006) has suggested that the public, measurable nature of youth sport means that the moral worth of parents can be symbolized through their child’s sporting success.”