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Parents attitude towards judo

The aim of this study is to determine the attitude of parents of young judoka towards judo sport, the reasons as to why they signed up their children to judo practices and the contentment with the choice of judo as a sport activity for their children, as well as determine the differences in said values between mothers and fathers.The measurement was carried out on a sample of 243 parents of young judokas coming from one judo club in Zagreb, out of which 145 were women and 98 were men. The scale used in this study represents a modified version of the scale of attitude towards judo evaluation (Žanetić, 2018).We can conclude that parents of young judoka have a mostly positive attitude towards judo. We also notice that they are not very familiar with judo rules or judo sport in general, but nonetheless they have a very good opinion about it which is shown to have a key role in signing up children on judo practices. We see that recommendations from other parents and different judo club advertisments play a role in making people interested in signing their children up for judo, still the biggest reasons of signing them up are the positive aspects of judo and its positive influence on children. Likewise, significant differences between mothers and fathers in answers to different items have been found, which opens up possibilities of different approaches by which the judo sport can be brought closer to parents so they would sign their children up for judo practices. Informations obtained in this study can help us increase the number of children practicing judo and in that way spreading this exceptional sport, which by itself enables a further positive sport development course.

Judo, attitude, parents

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