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    STUDIA EDUCATIO%20ARTIS%20GYMNASTICAE - Issue no. 1 / 2015  
         
  Article:   THE PARENTAL INFLUENCE ON JUNIOR TENNIS PLAYERS.

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  Abstract:  VIEW PDF: THE PARENTAL INFLUENCE ON JUNIOR TENNIS PLAYERS

This study has been made in order to better understand de role played by parents in obtaining tennis success by their children. In order to identify both positive and negative parental behaviours and strategies for maximising junior success by an efficient player-coach-parent triad. For reaching these goals a number of 14 junior tennis coaches in Cluj-Napoca answered a questionnaire. Results show that coaches think that parental involvement is crucial for success in junior tennis. Some principles related to the parental behaviour were identified as follows: the high expectations of parents because of the important financial investment, the opinion that tennis can produce a special parent-child relationship if correctly approached and the efficiency of parenting that enfacises virtues like fair-play or hard work, and not victory as the supreme goal. The coaches’ answers enfacised the coaches’ opinion that parents underscore victory and often have irrealistic expectations. On the other side, positive parental behaviour was related to the financial, logistic, social, emotional support and also to the sacrifices made by parents for providing opportunities for their children in order that they achieve success.

Keywords: player-coach-parent relationship, parental role, junior, tennis, behaviour, strategy.
 
         
     
         
         
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