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Parental care in sport of high school students

The rate of sport withdrawal in high school students in Croatia is very high. There is a number of reasons for sport attrition in children of that age and one of them could be decreasing amount of parental care in sport participation of growing up adolescents. The aim of this work is to research gender and age differences of parental care in high school student athletes.The sample consists of 214 boys and 78 girls, aged 15 to 19 years, participating regularly in some sport. They came from different high schools in Croatia, and were given Parental Care in Sport Scale [Bosnar, 2003.] during the physical education classes. The gender and age differences of parental care were established by univariate analysis of variance of the total scale result. The results show that no gender difference in parental care in sport was found, but statistically significant difference was established regarding the grade of students. For both, male and female athletes, parental care decreases considerably after first grade of high school. Modal age of second year high school students is 16 years, and decrement of parental care in sport corresponds to reduction of guardian care prescribed by law.

parental care; sport; young athlets

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