2023 Volume 49 Issue 1 Pages 1-12
This study was designed to identify factors influencing parental attitudes towards children. An online survey was conducted with 1359 Japanese parents with elementary school children. We inquired about the psychological attributes of their child by using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ), as well as object relations, the type of sports, the child's sports skill level, the team's sports level, and the child's sports skill level in the team, among others. The results indicat ed that parents' controlling parenting style increased and acceptance and child-centeredness were decreasing when children's problems increased. In the object relations of the parent factors, both parents' excessive need for identification and egoistic man ipulation increased control and inconsistency, and superficiality in interpersonal relations decreased acceptance. The relationship between children's difficulties and parents' interpersonal relationships in the field of children's sports was more complica ted in the case of high team level and in mothers. It is suggested that parents, coaches, and teammate's parents should be proactively informed that they should communicate with children according to their difficulties.
