The comparison between students trends to individual and team sports based on parenting styles, parental attachment styles and psychological well-being

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 MS. in physical education and sports sciences, Tendency of sport psychology, Khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

2 Assistant professor of Industrial and organizational psychology, Khorasgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

3 MS. in clinical psychology, Yazd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yazd, Iran

Abstract

Introduction: The present study was carried out to compare tendency of performing individual and group-based sports among students, in accordance with parenting styles and parents' psychological attachment and well being.
 
Materials and Methods: This was a causative-comparative study. Participants was all parents of elementary pupils at Isfahan city, region six, that have been referred to athletic clubs for doing special sports, besides passing physical education lecture and sport course at the school. A total of 120 subjects were selected via multistage cluster sampling method. The Hazan and Shiver attachment style questionnaire (1987), Baumrind parenting questionnaire (1989) and Ryff's psychological well being (1980) was used for collecting information. Data was analyzed using SPSS-21 software and multivariate variance analysis.
 
Results: The results of this study showed that there is neither significant difference in nor components of psychological well being with parents in tendency to group-based and individual sports (P>0.05). According to the results, there is a significant difference between parenting styles and attachment (safe attachment and assertive parenting style) in students tendency to individual and team sports (P<0.05).
 
Conclusion: It seems that parenting styles and attachment styles can impact on students' tendency to individual and team sports.

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Journal of Fundamentals of Mental Health
Volume 19, special issue
May and June 2017
Pages 263-271

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