More Than Just Letting Them Play: Parental Influence on Women's Lifetime Sport Involvement
Author
Dixon, Marlene A.; Warner, Stacy; Bruening, Jennifer
Abstract
This qualitative study uses expectancy-value and life course theories (Giele & Elder, 1998) to examine both the proximal and distal impact of early family socialization on enduring female participation in sport. Seventeen National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I female head coaches from the U.S. participated in interviews regarding parental in!uence on their sport involvement. Participants revealed three general mechanisms of sport socialization: a) role modeling, b) providing experience, and c) interpreting experience. Parental in!uence impacted their enduring involvement in sport by normalizing the sport experience, particularly in terms of gender, and by allowing them a voice in their own participation decisions. Insights regarding the roles of both parents and the interactive and contextual nature of socialization for increasing female participation are discussed.
Date
2008
Citation:
APA:
Dixon, Marlene A., & Warner, Stacy, & Bruening, Jennifer. (January 2008).
More Than Just Letting Them Play: Parental Influence on Women's Lifetime Sport Involvement.
Sociology of Sport Journal,
25(4),
538-
559. Retrieved from
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2871
MLA:
Dixon, Marlene A., and Warner, Stacy, and Bruening, Jennifer.
"More Than Just Letting Them Play: Parental Influence on Women's Lifetime Sport Involvement". Sociology of Sport Journal.
25:4. (538-559),
January 2008.
September 30, 2023.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2871.
Chicago:
Dixon, Marlene A. and Warner, Stacy and Bruening, Jennifer,
"More Than Just Letting Them Play: Parental Influence on Women's Lifetime Sport Involvement," Sociology of Sport Journal 25, no.
4 (January 2008),
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2871 (accessed
September 30, 2023).
AMA:
Dixon, Marlene A., Warner, Stacy, Bruening, Jennifer.
More Than Just Letting Them Play: Parental Influence on Women's Lifetime Sport Involvement. Sociology of Sport Journal.
January 2008;
25(4):
538-559.
http://hdl.handle.net/10342/2871. Accessed
September 30, 2023.
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Publisher
East Carolina University