TY - UNPB
T1 - Benefits and challenges of overparenting within an emerging youth sport: Parental spending, volunteering, and competitive longevity in competition climbing
AU - Gagnon, Ryan J.
AU - OH, Young Suk
AU - Hadiandehkordi, Parisa
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Across contexts, an emerging concern for professionals charged with facilitating youth programs relates to the increased influence of overparenting on the activities and services they provide. However, few studies have examined the influence of overparenting in adolescent samples and out-of-school time contexts such as sports, nor have they examined potential benefits of overparenting. The present study examined the potential benefits and consequences associated with overparenting relating to developmental outcomes, parental volunteering, spending, and youth athlete years of participation within an emerging Olympic sport, competition climbing. Through a structural equation model, the influence of overparenting on sport spending, years of volunteering for climbing, observed socioemotional development, and child’s years of participation was examined in a sample of 329 parents of youth competition climbers. Counter to the proposed study hypotheses, overparenting had no effect on parental sport spending, years of child participation in competition climbing, observed socioemotional development, or years of parental volunteering. The findings were consistent with some previous research examining excessive and overinvolved parenting, albeit in a younger non-academically focused sample, where overparenting was not as influential as hypothesized. However, this study provides additional context for our understanding of overparenting during earlier phases of development than emerging adulthood.
AB - Across contexts, an emerging concern for professionals charged with facilitating youth programs relates to the increased influence of overparenting on the activities and services they provide. However, few studies have examined the influence of overparenting in adolescent samples and out-of-school time contexts such as sports, nor have they examined potential benefits of overparenting. The present study examined the potential benefits and consequences associated with overparenting relating to developmental outcomes, parental volunteering, spending, and youth athlete years of participation within an emerging Olympic sport, competition climbing. Through a structural equation model, the influence of overparenting on sport spending, years of volunteering for climbing, observed socioemotional development, and child’s years of participation was examined in a sample of 329 parents of youth competition climbers. Counter to the proposed study hypotheses, overparenting had no effect on parental sport spending, years of child participation in competition climbing, observed socioemotional development, or years of parental volunteering. The findings were consistent with some previous research examining excessive and overinvolved parenting, albeit in a younger non-academically focused sample, where overparenting was not as influential as hypothesized. However, this study provides additional context for our understanding of overparenting during earlier phases of development than emerging adulthood.
KW - Overparenting
KW - Helicopter parenting
KW - Competition climbing
KW - Youth sport
KW - Indoor climbing
M3 - Working paper
VL - 4
SP - 225
EP - 247
BT - Benefits and challenges of overparenting within an emerging youth sport: Parental spending, volunteering, and competitive longevity in competition climbing
ER -