PSYC 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 34: Role Model, Age 13

• School: Irvine Valley College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 1
• Professor: tucker

Document Summary

Notes: psyc 1: differential parental roles in youth sport. Socializer: they introduce them to other kids/sports. Role model: how you treat others, how you walk, aggression while watching sports. Interpreter of child"s sport experience: they look to you to understand what"s going on. Research findings on parental roles: children"s enjoyment of physical activity is related to parental encouragement and a child"s perceived competence and participation, parental support buffers the adverse stressful effects that players experience. Coping mechanism: the goal orientations of parent and child are significantly related (ego vs. task, parents can play a highly positive or a highly negative role in the youth sport experience. Youth sports is becoming professionalized in the sense that a shift is occurring from a focus on physical, social, and psychological developmental to more extrinsic goals like winning, rankings, fame, and earning college athletic scholarships. Early sport specialization, year-round intense training, and private coaching characterize a professionalized approach.