An Analysis of Psychological Outcomes of the Parents of the Children Attending the Summer Sports School at Atatürk University

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to determine the psychological outcomes of the parents of the children who do sports at the summer sports school.
In this study, to obtain data about psychological outcomes of the parents, “The Scale of Parents' Psychological Outcomes in Sports” developed by Çepikkurt (2005) was used and administered to totally 200 parents, 133 of whom were male and 67 of whom were female. For data analysis, frequency analysis, descriptive statistics, independent samples t-tests and one-way ANOVA were performed and LSD test was run to find out the statistical difference.
The results of the study revelaed that statistically significant differences were observed among participants' psychological outcome levels such as controlling sub-dimension (p=.036) according to the case of being a licensed sporter, gaining a status sub-dimension (p=.003) and self-esteem sub-dimension (p=.005) based on education level, gaining a status sub-dimension (p=.003), self-esteem (p=.034) and identification (p=.016) sub-dimensions according to the level of monthly income.