Abstract
The transmission of positive values between parents and children is generally considered to be the hallmark of successful socialization. As this issue has been widely discussed but surprisingly little researched - especially with reference to core sport values - in this study we aimed to: 1) analyze adolescent athletes’ acceptance of the sport values their parents want to transmit to them (i.e., parental socialization values) and 2) examine the relationship between parental involvement in children’s sportive activity and adolescents’ acceptance of their parents’ socialization values. One hundred and seventy-two Italian adolescents (48.3% male, 51.7% female) who regularly practice team sports were asked to fill out a questionnaire which included the Youth Sport Values Questionnaire – 2 and the Parental Involvement in Sport Questionnaire. The dyadic correlations revealed that young athletes are in general willing to accept their parents’ socialization values in regards to sport. Moreover, from the relative weight analysis (a relatively new data analysis strategy), it emerged that parental involvement characterized by praise and understanding is the most important predictor of adolescents’ willingness to accept their parents’ sport values. Implications of these results and further expansion of the study are discussed.
Highlights
The transmission of positive values between parents and children is generally considered to be the hallmark of successful socialization
The aim of our study was to analyze the sport values held by adolescents and adolescents’ acceptance of those sport values their parents want them to endorse, as well as to investigate the impact parental involvement in their children’s sportive activity has on value acceptance on the part of the adolescents
The findings of the current study showed that adolescent athletes gave great importance to competence values and moral values, but attributed little importance to status values
Summary
The transmission of positive values between parents and children is generally considered to be the hallmark of successful socialization. From the relative weight analysis (a relatively new data analysis strategy), it emerged that parental involvement characterized by praise and understanding is the most important predictor of adolescents’ willingness to accept their parents’ sport values. Implications of these results and further expansion of the study are discussed. Previous studies have highlighted the fact that parents provide their offspring with a context for socialization during adolescence (Caputo, 2009) Parents may transmit their values (Murray & Mulvaney, 2012) and passions to their adolescent children (Donnat, 2004) - passions such as an interest in music (Mageau et al, 2009) or in volunteering (van Goethem, van Hoof, van Aken, Orobio de Castro, & Raaijmakers, 2014) - which become important in their children’s lives
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