Participation of women in sports as related to their parental sports participation

Abstract

The purpose of the qualitative study was to investigate the relationship of parental attitude and their daughter’s participations in sports. A sample of three hundred and fifty parents of sports women who were the students of various colleges of Union Territory of Chandigarh and must have participated at least at District or College level of sports. The subjects and their parents were administered a self-constructed questionnaire for family sports environment used by Cratty (1959, 1973) was administered to the subjects. When Pearson Product movement correlation method was applied to find out the relationship of family sports environment and the participation of women’s sports participation are highly significant (r=0.445) at 0.01 level of confidence. It was further analyzed that father’s sports participation (r=0.227, p