scholarly journals Influences on Parents' Decision Making Prior to Youth Sport Program Enrollment

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karl E. Zang
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Program Enrollment

The Deselection Process in Competitive Female Youth Sport

2016 ◽  
Vol 30 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kacey C. Neely ◽  
John G.H. Dunn ◽  
Tara-Leigh F. McHugh ◽  
Nicholas L. Holt
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Female Adolescent ◽  
Ice Hockey ◽  
Head Coaches ◽  
Interpretive Description ◽  
Female Youth ◽  
Provincial Level ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Sport Teams

The overall purpose of this study was to examine coaches’ views on deselecting athletes from competitive female adolescent sport teams. Individual semistructured interviews were conducted with 22 head coaches of Canadian provincial level soccer, basketball, volleyball, and ice hockey teams. Interpretive description methodology (Thorne, 2008) was used. Results revealed deselection was a process that involved four phases: pre-tryout meeting, evaluation and decision-making, communication of deselection, and post deselection reflections. Within the evaluation and decision-making phase coaches made programmed and nonprogrammed decisions under conditions of certainty and uncertainty. When faced with uncertainty coaches relied on intuition.

scholarly journals Editorial: Decision-Making in Youth Sport

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Filipa Silva ◽  
José Afonso ◽  
Hugo Sarmento ◽  
Sixto González-Víllora ◽  
Juan Carlos Pastor Vicedo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Editorial Decision

scholarly journals Socioeconomic status and parent perceptions about the costs and benefits of youth sport

PLoS ONE ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (11) ◽  
pp. e0258885
Author(s):  
Emily Kroshus ◽  
Pingping Qu ◽  
Sara Chrisman ◽  
Stanley Herring ◽  
Frederick Rivara
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
High Income ◽  
Costs And Benefits ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Parental Decision Making ◽  
The Impact

Objectives Describe what costs and benefits parents across the socioeconomic spectrum weight most heavily when making decisions about sport participation for their children. Method Cross-sectional survey of a nationally representative online panel of parents of children between the ages of 5 and 18 (n = 1025, 52% response rate). Parents rated the importance of a series of potential costs and benefits of youth sport and these responses were compared across tertiles of per capita family income. We first examined the association between family income tertiles and cost and benefit variables. Model-based cluster analysis was then used to identity homogeneous groups of responses to costs and benefits. Results In all income tertiles, the top two benefits of sport were the same: having fun and being physically active. Sport as a means of keeping children out of trouble was very important for 64% of low-income parents as compared to 40% of high-income parents. Obtaining a college athletic scholarship was very important for 26% of low-income parents, as compared to 8% of high-income parents. Relative rankings of potential costs were similar by income tertile, with risk of concussion and other injury and the impact of sport on schoolwork prioritized across tertiles. Conclusions Parents prioritized fun and fitness in sport, and were concerned about injury and the impact of sport on academics. Lower income parents were the most likely to view keeping their child out of trouble, and the potential for a college athletics scholarship, as benefits of sport. Efforts to support parental decision making should be grounded in an understanding that family preferences are contextually constrained. While all parents should be appropriately informed about the potential costs and benefits they are weighting in their sports-related decision making, such family-focused efforts should be balanced with the recognition that structural change is needed to address income-related concerns about sport participation.

Towards an understanding of family travel decision-making processes in the context of youth sport tourism

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 100644
Author(s):  
Mona Mirehie ◽  
Heather J. Gibson ◽  
Richard J. Buning ◽  
Cassandra Coble ◽  
Meredith Flaherty
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Sport Tourism ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Travel Decision

Youth Sport Parenting Styles and Practices

2009 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas L. Holt ◽  
Katherine A. Tamminen ◽  
Danielle E. Black ◽  
James L. Mandigo ◽  
Kenneth R. Fox
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Interactions ◽  
Parenting Styles ◽  
Parenting Practices ◽  
Youth Sport ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Bidirectional Communication ◽  
Female Children ◽  
Reciprocal Influences

The purpose of this study was to examine parenting styles and associated parenting practices in youth sport. Following a season-long period of fieldwork, primary data were collected via interviews with 56 parents and supplemented by interviews with 34 of their female children. Data analysis was guided by Grolnick's (2003) theory of parenting styles. Analyses produced five findings: (1) Autonomy-supportive parents provided appropriate structure for their children and allowed them to be involved in decision making. These parents were also able to read their children's mood and reported open bidirectional communication. (2) Controlling parents did not support their children's autonomy, were not sensitive to their children's mood, and tended to report more closed modes of communication. (3) In some families, there were inconsistencies between the styles employed by the mother and father. (4) Some parenting practices varied across different situations. (5) Children had some reciprocal influences on their parents' behaviors. These findings reveal information about the multiple social interactions associated with youth sport parenting.

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