Parental motives for enrolling their children to select gymnastics training program

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the Parental motive for enrolling their children in gymnastics training program. Fifty one parents of children attending the gymnastics training programs served as subjects for this study. Sincere efforts were made to collect the data from the parents. A questionnaire was prepared which includes the psychological aspects of parental motives i.e. Fitness, Skill/Mastery, Fun/Excitement, Affiliation, Team, recognition. The questionnaire was arranged in a logical order and each statement was worded clearly to enable the subject to understand and answer those statement without much difficulty. The study has revealed that the parents of children in gymnastics for betterment and upliftment of the game. The results of the study shows that parents of the children involving in gymnastics program shows high motives towards their children, thus hypothesis is thus accepted.