Parental Involvement, Pressure, and Support in Youth Sport: A Narrative Literature Review

Bremer, Karin Lindstrom

doi:10.1111/j.1756-2589.2012.00129.x

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“…Indeed, recent family scholars (e.g., Bremer, 2012) have called for an empirical focus on athlete families and their relationship dynamics. In an attempt to answer this call, it is essential for those designing and assessing evidence-based parent education to consider the potential bearing of parent sport involvement on the ongoing parent-child relationship.…”

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The Impact of Evidence-Based Parent Education in Organized Youth Sport: A Pilot Study

Dorsch

King

Dunn

et al. 2016

Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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Although existing literature in organized youth sport illuminates developmentally appropriate parent involvement behaviors, practitioners have yet to effectively disseminate evidence-based tools and strategies to parents. The purpose of the present pilot study was to design, implement, and assess an evidence-based education program for parents in organized youth sport. 39 fathers and 42 mothers from seven youth soccer teams were assigned to full-, partial-, or nonimplementation conditions. Parents and their sport-participating children (41 boys and 40 girls)were administered surveys at pre and postseason. Data reveal a positive impact of the implementation on aspects of parent involvement, the parent-child relationship, and salient child outcomes.

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The Impact of Evidence-Based Parent Education in Organized Youth Sport: A Pilot Study

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King

Dunn

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Journal of Applied Sport Psychology

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“…Much attention has arisen from concerns portrayed in the mainstream media surrounding negative parental behaviour (Lindstrom Bremer, 2012). To an extent, many studies qualify this perspective.…”

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The experience of parent-coaches in youth sport: A qualitative case study from Australia

Elliott

Drummond²

2017

JAS

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There has been increasing academic interest in understanding the nature of parental involvement in youth sport. Much scholarly focus has illuminated both positive and negative forms of sport parenting from the perspectives of coaches, parents and youth participants. One less understood aspect, however, surrounds the potentially conflicting role of parents who coach their own children in youth sport. This is surprising given that many parents demonstrate support by fulfilling essential roles such as team manager and team coach (Jeffery-Tosoni, Fraser-Thomas, & Baker, 2015). This paper draws on rich, descriptive qualitative data from 16 parent/coaches to highlight the contemporary experiences of parent/coaches who coach their own child. Three themes were identified including deliberate criticism, limited recognition, and behaviour justification, illustrating how parent/coaches intentionally demonstrate differential behaviour toward their child in contrast to the rest of the team. Examples of this include demonstrating deliberate criticism at training and matches and overlooking their child in awarding weekly encouragement awards after each match. Significantly, parent/coaches justify these behaviours in attempting to fulfil the dual role of parent and team coach to the best of their ability. Through the lens of social constructionism, we argue that this is not only problematic for parent and child relationships, but it may also have a reinforcing influence on how other parent/coaches negotiate the dual role. We argue that the reproduction of these behaviours can potentially preserve problematic aspects of parental involvement in youth sport, offering a unique perspective to the sport-parenting literature.

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“…This, in turn, requires such extensive investigation that longitudinal inquiries would be idyllic, in order to exemplify different themes at different stages (Dixon, Warner, & Bruening, 2008;Bremer, 2012). Furthermore, when considering the evidence available of practical implementation of such research, relatively few NGBs of sport have specific materials available for engaging in the development of family involvement within their sport.…”

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“…As Bremer (2012) explains "with all the pressure surrounding youth sport it is researchers' responsibility to provide guidance for those involved in youth sport" (p. 236). Accordingly, this paper has three objectives; to review the main issues raised when considering the family and elite sport, to underpin these issues with the identification of the key theoretical perspectives the family elicits, and to contextualize where we are in relation to knowledge within this complex area, and where we can go from here.…”

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“…We will now take into consideration, how the theory we have outlined may appear in practice. Bremer (2012) discusses the need for FST to be utilized to help inform research around families and their complex involvement in different stages of the athlete's development. FST looks at the family as a team, and recognizes the differing characteristics of each member, the individual relationships (subsystems) that can be played out at any one time, and the influence that all of these can have on the athlete.…”

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Reviewing the Family Unit as a Stakeholder in Talent Development: Is It Undervalued?

Taylor

Collins

2015

Quest

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As elite youth sport becomes more organized and professionalized, the role of the family is increasingly acknowledged as significant to the development of young talent. High profile examples across a range of professional sports, both positive and negative, have drawn attention towards this important stakeholder. Accordingly, in this review we first examine the key issues in relation to family involvement in Talent Development, with relation to what is perceived as good and bad practice on behalf of the family. We next consider the key theoretical underpinning, Family Systems Theory, and how it may be integrated within elite youth sport. Finally, we conclude with a summary of where the current literature leaves us, and where we can progress from here. We suggest two possible inputs that could benefit the effectiveness of family involvement, with a focus on the family holistically, and a second on the role different family members can play. The importance of family support systems within the context of elite performance cannot be underestimated, with family playing a crucial role in an athlete's continued development to the top of their chosen sport . This support is just as important if an athlete does not make it to the level they were striving for as the family can be utilized as a mechanism to help deal with the set back, and encourage continued development at an appropriate level. Finally, such support can also be crucial to the maintenance of activity across the lifespan, making the family an important player in participation as well as performance-focused involvement (Horn & Horn, 2007). This review aims to highlight how family may play such roles.Significant others are integral to an athlete's social environment and, particularly for young athletes, family often provides the most important influence of all (Horn & Horn, 2007). Although family is now portrayed within a context of fluid and changeable relationships, with the boundaries ever changing and expanding (Cowan, 1983) the most pervasive of family relations predominantly comprises of parents (whether same-sex or heterosexual) and siblings (Rittenour, Myers, & Brann, 2007). Indeed, Brackenridge (2006) indicates that, without parental involvement, many young athletes would not be able to continue their sports participation. In similar fashion, David (2005) comments that, "when young athletes take sport very seriously and train over two hours a day, it is normal that parents become closely involved" (p. 215). In short, whether this is through transportation, financial assistance, relationships with coaches, changing family activities to fit around competition/training, emotional support or attending these competitions, parents are a key component of their child's development (LeBlanc & Dickson: 2006). In contrast, through labelling a child as gifted (whether in sport or another domain), feelings such as rivalry, envy, The value of the family in Talent Development 4 and discontent are likely to become heightened amongst siblings of lesser tale...

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Parental Involvement, Pressure, and Support in Youth Sport: A Narrative Literature Review

Cited by 53 publications

References 37 publications

The Impact of Evidence-Based Parent Education in Organized Youth Sport: A Pilot Study

The Impact of Evidence-Based Parent Education in Organized Youth Sport: A Pilot Study

The experience of parent-coaches in youth sport: A qualitative case study from Australia

Reviewing the Family Unit as a Stakeholder in Talent Development: Is It Undervalued?

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