The Comparison of Sport Orientation of Adolescents Based on Perceived Patterning Styles

The purpose of this research was to compare the sport orientation of adol-escents based on their perceived patt-erning styles. Through a two-stage sampling method, 350 junior high sc-hool students were selected. A battery of questionnaires was applied to co-llect the data including parenting style questionnaire, sport orientation ques-tionnaire, and participation motivation questionnaire. Data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA).Findings indicated that parenting sty-les affect children’s sport orientation. In addition, this study shows a signify-cant difference between boys and girls in sport orientation, suggesting that boys are more competitive, winning and goal oriented. Consequently, acc-ording to the results, children of authoritative parents might be more sport and success oriented than those of permissive parents. In general, the present study reveals that parenting style is a fundamental important pro-cess influencing the improvement of adolescent's sport orientation.