Research on Parental Influence and Youth Sports Participation

This assignment delves into the multifaceted influence of parental involvement in youth sports, focusing on the impact of parental behavior on children's motivation, enjoyment, and overall experience. The research includes a memo to parents highlighting the importance of balanced involvement, emphasizing the potential for excessive parental pressure to negatively affect children. The assignment explores the relationship between enjoyment and motivation, suggesting that parents should support their children without applying undue pressure. The study utilizes a post-positivism paradigm and employs both primary and secondary data collection methods, including interviews and a review of relevant literature, to understand the dynamics of parental influence. The assignment also includes a gatekeeper letter to gain access to a sport group, highlighting the ethical considerations and research methodology employed in the study. Overall, the research aims to provide insights into how parental involvement can be optimized to enhance children's experiences in youth sports.

Week 44 questions

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5 Concept
map
Role of
parents in
youth sport
Importance of
parents behavior
in children
behavior
Parents
involvement
youth sport
setting
Parental
involvement in
Youth Sport
experience
Advancing the
study of parental
involvement
Excessive
pressure lead to
demotivation
High
involvement
affect
performance
excessive
parental
involvement can
cause pressure
Parents are
largely
overlooked
Appropriate parental
participation
promotes increase of
players’ enjoyment

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Memo
To:
From:
Subject: to draw attention of parents regarding their behavior on Sunday League
Date:
I am writing this to inform you that parents play a key role in the youth sports educational
experience as they are responsible for an introduction of their children and involvement during
early stages. The findings reflected that an excessive active involvement of parents lead to
cause pressure on children and that is why, there should be a balance between supporting
involvement. Also, another article also revealed that there is a positive relation between a
motivation and negative with enjoyment. Thus, parents involvement should be minimum so
that it do not cause demotivate the children and increase player’s enjoyment as well.
Through the findings it has been concluded that the parents definitely influence their children
and this should be reducing because it affect the enjoyment of the children as it shows the
negative relationship between the variable.
The academic themes which is framed by review the article include,
 relationship between enjoyment and motivation of students.
 Next is balance between supporting involvement without pressurize the children.
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Role of parents in youth setting
Role of Parental
Involvement in
sports
Parents’ Behavior
in their Children’s
Enjoyment in sports
By conducting Sport
Questionnaire By conducting K-S test
Results Results
Positive relationship between enjoyment
and motivation of students. Like, parents
should not pressure their children that
decrease the enjoyment
balance between supporting involvement
without pressurize the children. Like,
parents demotivate their children and
decrease the level of enjoyment

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The setting that suits my focus could be online, where interview should be sent online by
complying with Covid-19 policies.
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I am an insider for the present study because I conduct the entire research and derive the
better results accordingly. This in turn assist to improve the results and complete the entire
research.
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Gatekeeper letter
Dear Sir,
I am currently beginning the research topic name as influence of parents watching u10
children on Sunday League on side lines at a University.
Subject to approval by a University Research Etjics Committee for this project will be in the
form of interview to assess the role of parents towards children.
I am writing to ask your permission to be allowed to access to your sport group which will
take only 2 days and can be conducted at a convenient time.
I ensure that all the answer will be remain confidential and no personal detail of the selected
participants will be leaked at any cost.
If possible please confirm so that I will proceed further.
Thanking you,
Yours sincerely.

The importance of this letter is to ensure researcher to gain access to potential
participants and sites for a research. A positive influence of gatekeeper can be helpful to meet the
defined aim and facilitate the smooth running of a research activity and meet the defined aim.
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The paradigm used by the researcher in the present study involves post-positivism which
is related to subjectivity of reality and also move away from the purely objective stances. That is
why, the present study used this method in order to determine the existence of reality.
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No, the research is not an ethnography because the researcher do not spend an extended
period of time in order to collect the data.
14  Primary: In the present study primary data collection method has been used in which
interview will be designed that help to determine the views of all the selected participants
in order to get fresh information. This in turn assist to determine the influence of parents
watching U10 children on Sunday League on the side lines. Secondary: Another data collection method where researcher collect information through
secondary sources in order to determine the trend. The sources include books, journals
article, related to sports in which the influence of parents can be determine.