Exploring the development of coach-parent relationships in organized competitive youth team sports
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to gain a better understanding of coach-parent relationships in organized competitive youth team sports. Two qualitative studies were conducted with distinct samples from youth sports teams (U10-U15) within a large urban center in Ontario, Canada. Study 1 explored perceptions of key relationship-shaping factors among coaches (n = 21; 5 females, 16 males; age range: 22-64 years) and parents (n = 20; 6 females, 14 males; age range: 40-63 years). Identified factors included behavioural expectations, communication practices, trust, and pressures associated with professionalization. Study 2 (n = 20; 10 parents [9 females, 1 male] and 10 coaches [2 females, 8 males]) utilized grounded theory to propose a three-stage developmental model: (a) Introduction and discovery, (b) Curiosity, doubt, or stability, and (c) Engagement or separation. This model provides a clear framework illustrating how coach-parent interactions evolve, stabilize, or deteriorate, influenced by broader sociocultural and structural factors such as generational differences, organizational policies, and sport professionalization. Results emphasize the strategic importance for coaches and sport organizations in managing parent relationships and outline practical implications for enhancing these interactions. This research addresses an important gap by offering a theoretically grounded, developmental perspective on coach-parent dynamics in youth sport.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".