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Parental Goal Orientations and Beliefs About the Competitive‐Sport Experience of Their Child 1
Author(s) -
Roberts Glyn c.,
Treasure Darren C.,
Hall Howard K.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
journal of applied social psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.822
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1559-1816
pISSN - 0021-9029
DOI - 10.1111/j.1559-1816.1994.tb00604.x
Subject(s) - psychology , social psychology , preference , developmental psychology , goal orientation , perception , context (archaeology) , id, ego and super ego , interpretation (philosophy) , task (project management) , orientation (vector space) , sample (material) , paleontology , chemistry , geometry , mathematics , management , chromatography , neuroscience , computer science , programming language , economics , biology , microeconomics
We examined the achievement goals of parents' in relation to their interpretation of their child's sporting behavior, preference for certain types of performance feedback about their child, the types of tasks they prefer their child to engage in, and their beliefs about the cause of their child's performance. The sample consisted of 96 parents whose children were in the first year (mean age 11.3) at a large comprehensive school in a major city in the United Kingdom. Parents' dispositional achievement goal orientations were differentiated by their responses to the Perception of Success Questionnaire (Roberts & Balague, 1989, 1991). Whereas differences in task orientation appear to be critical in the education setting (Ames & Archer, 1988), the findings of this study suggest that individual differences in ego orientation may be more significant in the competitive sport context.