Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Tohoku University School of Medicine.
Department of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Tohoku University School of Medicine.
Tohoku J Exp Med. 2021 Mar;253(3):191-198. doi: 10.1620/tjem.253.191.
Communication between parents and their children's coaches is important for children's sports activities, but the relationship between parents and coaches is not well understood. It is possible that parents feel a lack of communication with coaches, which could be due to parents' experience with sports activities or the social environment of the team. This study aimed to elucidate the characteristics of parents who feel a lack of communication with their children's coaches of youth sports. A cross-sectional study was conducted on parents of young athletes (n = 6,641) and multivariate logistic regression analyses were performed to assess factors related to parents' feeling of a lack of communication with their children's coaches. Among the respondents, 29.4% of parents felt a lack of communication with their children's coaches. The factors related to the parents' feeling were a shorter duration of their children playing the present sport, an absence of experience playing the same sport as their children or playing in a team with high competition level, dissatisfaction with their children's attitude towards sports activities, and an awareness of verbal and/or physical abuse by the coaches and bullying by the teammates in their children's team. Parents' previous sports experience and awareness of interpersonal violence in their children's team were associated with their feeling of a lack of communication with coaches. Educating parents on the sport and their roles in youth sport is necessary to make appropriate mutual communication between parents and coaches, which could lead to better circumstances for young athletes.
父母与子女教练之间的沟通对于孩子的体育活动很重要，但父母与教练之间的关系并未得到很好的理解。父母可能会感到与教练之间缺乏沟通，这可能是由于父母的体育活动经验或团队的社会环境所致。本研究旨在阐明与子女青年体育教练缺乏沟通的父母的特征。对年轻运动员的父母（n=6641）进行了横断面研究，并进行了多变量逻辑回归分析，以评估与父母与子女教练缺乏沟通感相关的因素。在受访者中，有 29.4%的父母感到与子女教练之间缺乏沟通。与父母缺乏沟通感相关的因素是其子女从事当前运动的时间较短，没有与子女相同的运动经验或在竞争水平较高的团队中打球，对子女对体育活动的态度不满意，以及意识到教练的言语和/或身体虐待以及子女所在团队的欺凌行为。父母以前的体育经验和对子女团队中人际暴力的认识与他们与教练缺乏沟通的感觉有关。对父母进行有关体育和他们在青年体育中的角色的教育，对于父母和教练之间进行适当的相互沟通是必要的，这可以为年轻运动员创造更好的环境。
