Parents’ perspectives and young athletes’ perceptions of social support

• DOI: 10.12965/jer.140099
• Publication Date: 2014-05-09T05:51:00Z
• Authors: Sunghee Park; Sooyeon Kim
• Keywords: 03 medical and health sciences; 0302 clinical medicine; 1. No poverty; Original Article

The purpose of this study was to examine experiences being elite tennis players' parents, social support they provided their children, and athletes' perceptions influences parents' support. Four focus groups (2 athletes 2 parents groups) were conducted collect data from both parents. analyzed by thematic analysis resulted in nine higher order themes including initiation sporting career, expectations, satisfaction, concerns, tangible, esteem, information, emotion, network Later five which indicate kinds for received used develop a matrix can explain each findings revealed that there some gaps between providers' receivers' perspectives effectiveness because not effective when the without considering needs. Therefore, highlighted could be much if providers consider needs before provide certain those athletes.