The perception of athlete towards parental support and pressure / Wan Muhammad Zulhusmi Wan Mustaffa

The purpose of this study was to identify the perception of athlete towards parental
support and pressure. A total of eighty-one athlete (N=81) was involved via random
sampling in this study. The method of this study were descriptive and using
intrumentations of demographic questionnaire and the athlete questionnaire (support
and pressure). Based on the discriptive statistics showed that the parental support scale
are from 1.40 - 2.23 for the average of mother's total support which is 'never' and
'rarely' support. For father's mean in average support is from 1.69 - 2.38. The result
also shown the relationship between parent involvement in athletes' sport and their
support for mother, (p = 0.05, r = 0.22) and (p = 0.000, r = 0.58) for father. The result
also show the relation between parental pressure and parental involvement in athletes'
sport participation which is it shown a significant (p = 0.002, r = 0.34) for mother and
(p = 0.000, r = 0.42) for father which is both has positive relation.