The gap between athletes’ and parents’ perceptions of parental practices: The role of gender

The present study explored the differences between athletes’ and parents’ perceptions of parental practices (i.e., active involvement, directive, pressure, praise, understanding behaviours implemented by parents in context their child’s sport) considering gender. cross-sectional study. Parents (N = 352) athletes 256, M 14.72 years) completed a questionnaire to measure sport. Zero-order correlations were computed for entire sample each sub-group father-daughter, father-son, mother-daughter, mother-son). One-level multilevel model (level 1: respondent) was influence respondent on practices. Two-level respondent, level 2: dyad) estimated impact gender, interaction perceptions. Correlations highlighted relatively modest concordance adolescents. Multilevel models showed that compared athletes, reported significantly less frequent use directive (β −0.29) more involvement −0.18) praise 0.27). differed according −0.22) 0.22) higher when father involved dyad mother.