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SPORT PSYCHOLOGIST
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 18-37Publisher
HUMAN KINETICS PUBL INC
DOI: 10.1123/tsp.22.1.18
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This study was designed to investigate experienced coaches' perceptions of the parent's role in junior tennis and identify positive and negative parental behaviors and attitudes. Six focus groups were conducted with 24 coaches. Content analysis of coaches' responses revealed that most parents were positive influences and espoused an appropriate perspective of tennis, emphasized child development, and were supportive. In contrast, a minority of parents were perceived as negative, demanding and overbearing, and exhibiting an outcome orientation. New findings included parents' setting limits on tennis and emphasizing a child's total development, as well as the identification of behaviors that represent parental overinvolvement and that negatively affect coaching. Results are discussed relative to sport-parenting literature, and practical implications are outlined.
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