Secondary school students' participation in sports and their parents' level of support: a qualitative study from six Adelaide schools
| dc.contributor.author | Maniam, Vegneskumar | en |
| dc.contributor.conference | Australian Council for Health, Physical Education and Recreation International Conference (27th : 2011 : Adelaide) | en |
| dc.contributor.conference | ACHPER 2011 | en |
| dc.contributor.school | School of Education | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2011 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The study investigated student involvement in sports as part of co-curricular activities in the school and outside, and the effect of parental support upon their child’s sport participation. The purpose of the study was to investigate in-depth the views of year 11 students from six Adelaide schools about their parents’ influence on their participation in sport. The schools agreed to allow their students to participate on a voluntary basis. The primary data was gathered from 111 students in the form of written personal statements in response to the researcher’s open-ended guideline questions, based on the humanistic sociological approach of studying respondents’ personal perspectives on a particular phenomenon. The 80% of respondents who claimed to play sport were involved in a total of 23 different sports, with soccer being the most frequently mentioned (29%). Parental support for sports participation was evident in 89% of their comments, but only 11% of parents played an active role. The 20% of respondents who did not play sport all attended schools where participation in sport was not compulsory. The negative family constraints identified by 15% of respondents referred to issues such as lack of parental interest in sport, concerns about safety, maintaining a balance between sport and other areas of life, and the cost involved. | en |
| dc.description.statementofresponsibility | Vegneskumar Maniam | en |
| dc.description.uri | http://www.achpersa.com.au/wb/pages/national-conference---2011/home.php | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Edited Proceedings of the 27th ACHPER International Conference: Moving, Learning & Achieving, held in Adelaide, 18-20 April, 2011 / G.D.Dodd (ed.): pp.66-77 | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 9780987110916 | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2440/71581 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | ACHPER National | en |
| dc.rights | Copyright 2011 ACHPER National and individual authors. Copyright in each of the papers printed herein is retained.by the respective authors. | en |
| dc.title | Secondary school students' participation in sports and their parents' level of support: a qualitative study from six Adelaide schools | en |
| dc.type | Conference paper | en |