- Title
- Sport parenting during the COVID-19 pandemic: perceptions of parents and youth in Australia
- Creator
- Elliott, Sam; Pankowiak, Aurelie; Eime, Rochelle; Drummond, Murray
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/189792
- Identifier
- vital:17483
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.psychsport.2022.102299
- Identifier
- ISSN:1469-0292 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Understanding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parental involvement in youth sport is largely unknown. The objective of the study presented in this paper was to understand parental involvement in relation to their child's participation in organised sport during the COVID-19 pandemic. Using an interpretive descriptive methodology, online qualitative interviews and online focus groups with parents and youth (15–18 years) (n = 29) were conducted during June 2020. Following a rigorous reflexive thematic analysis, four themes illustrated the nature of sport parenting during this stressful and uncertain period: (a) reshaping sport parenting identity, (b) the unexpected growth of sport parenting responsibilities, (c) responding to children's loss of sport, and (d) policies impact family commitment and attitudes to returning to sport. The findings are discussed considering Harwood and Knight's (2015) postulates of parenting expertise in sport and offer potential ideas to better support parents and children situated in unexpectedly stressful situations. © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Relation
- Psychology of Sport and Exercise Vol. 64, no. (2023), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- Copyright © 2022 Elsevier Ltd
- Subject
- 5201 Applied and developmental psychology; Expertise; Pandemic; Parenting; Qualitative; Youth sport
- Reviewed
- Funder
- This project was funded by a Flinders University research grant. The funding body did not have any involvement in the design of the study, collection and analysis of the data or writing of the manuscript.
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