Parental support and pressure on athletes of high school students in Marang district / Mohamad Afiq Alias

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the level of parental support and pressure
on athletes among high school students in the Marang district. A total of eighty
athletes (N=80) were involved via purposive sampling in this study. The study was
descriptive and used demographic questionnaire and (The Athlete Questionnaire
support and pressure) as the intruments of data collection. Based on the discriptive
statistics, the total parental support level is high which is 63.24 (SD=9.13) The total
parental pressure level is also high which is 33.35 (SD=6.70). The results also show
that there is a significant relationship (p = 0.000, r = -0.778) between parental
support and parental pressure among high school students. In addition, the results
for the independent T-Test, show that there is no significant different relationship
between team and individual sports. There is no significant difference between the
level of parental support and type of sport, which is p 0.34, p<O.05 for type of
parental support and 0.96,p<O.05 for parental pressure. The researcher evaluated the
level of parental support and pressure among high school students in the Marang
district. Furthermore, the researcher also evaluated the correlation between the level
of parental support and pressure among school student in the Marang district.