PSYC 3480 Chapter 10: eBook - Chapter 10.docx

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3480
• Professor: Anneke Olthof

Document Summary

Why kids participate in and withdraw from sport. Athletic participation allows kids to develop a sense of competency and success in specific sport activities. It also produces perceptions of control, self-confidence, and enhanced feelings of self-worth. Kids continue to participate because of intrinsic motivations and pleasure in playing as well as they can, in pleasing their parents and family, and in playing with their friends. Although winning is important to many kids, fun and acquiring and improving skills are chief objectives: kids would rather play and be competitors on losing teams, than members of championship teams but sit on the bench. A significant number of children and adolescents who start a sport withdraw each year. Most parents enthusiastically attend games to support children, and are respectful of coaches, referees, and opposition. Parents must appreciate child"s joy is playing rather than in outcomes.