Parents' and Teachers' Attitudes and Reactions toward Participation in Sports by Young Athletes of a University in an Indian State

Bibliographic Data

ID2379110
AuthorsK Gupta (0000-0001-7733-9836), Shivani Gupta (0000-0003-3690-8902, Panjab University, corresponding author), S K Gupta (0000-0003-4049-3615, E-39, Sector-14, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India)
Year1987
Volume22
Issue4
Pages305-315
Publication date1987-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Review for the Sociology of Sport (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1012-6902 • E-ISSN: 1461-7218
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/101269028702200407
OpenAlexW2055513257
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited12

Research interest in the study of sociology of sport in India is very recent. Data for the study were collected through a pretested questionnaire distributed to 200 sports participants (100 male and 100 female) coming from the student population of the University of the Punjab State in India in 1984. The hypothesis that parents encourage their sons more than their daughters to participate in sports was not verified. The study revealed that it was the sportswomen who were given more encouragement. The hypothesis that teachers and coaches encourage their male students more than their female students was also not substantiated; quite to the contrary, the female students were given more encouragement. In our study the parents of sportswomen were better educated than those of the sportsmen; a large percentage of the parents of sportsmen was illiterate

Athletes · Developmental psychology · Physical therapy · Population · Sociology · Sociology of sport · Demography · Gender Studies · Medicine · Physical Education and Pedagogy · Psychology · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society