The Relationship Between Parents And Children’s Sport Participation:Based On The Model Of Knowledge, Attitude And Practice

In the early phase of children growth, most their sport resources are manipulated by the adults and their sport participation supply is mainly controlled by the significant others that children depend on. As the main constructors of children’s healthy life, it’s confirmed that parents are indicative of children’s sport participation. Different from foreign research, domestic research of this field is rare. Based on the Model of Knowledge, Attitude and Practice (KAP) and sampled from6areas of Tianjin, this research made an empirical study on parent-children sport participation and tried to figure out some parent-children sport participation issues relating to sport knowledge, attitude and practice.By means of interview and questionnaire,15parents were interviewed and1600sets of the questionnaire were distributed among which1173families completed all three rounds of questionnaires. The statistics results were as follows:1. Parents’ knowledge construction of health and sport was a coordinated structure including the subject-matter knowledge of sport, the conditional knowledge of sport, the practical knowledge of sport and general health parenting knowledge; children’s sport knowledge was the result of single dimension mainly about the practical knowledge.2. Parent’s knowledge of health and sport had positive influence on their attitude and sport behavior and the more health and sport knowledge the parents had, the more beneficial to themselves and their children.3. Children’s sport knowledge had positive influence on their attitude and their sport behavior and it was more beneficial to their sport’s attitude and practice if they got more sport knowledge.4. The KAP of children’s sport participation was predicted by the KAP of parents’sport participation. Children’s perception on quality of parental involvement partially mediated the relationship between the KAP of children’s sport participation and the KAP of parents’sport participation.5. In the targeted layer was significant difference on weighted distribution among parents’KAP about sport participation and practice ranked the first of KAP. In the criteria layer of knowledge, general health parenting knowledge was the largest contributor. In the criteria layer of attitude, task value was the largest contributor. In the criteria layer of practice, time input was the largest contributor. These results suggest that practice is the most crucial factor in the parent-children’ s exercise intervention and the best approach is time input to children’s sports needs.