The transmission of positive values between parents and children is generally considered to be the hallmark of successful socialisation. As this issue has been widely discussed but surprisingly little researched – especially with reference to core sport values – in this study we aimed to: 1) analyse adolescent athletes’ acceptance of the sport values their parents want to transmit to them (i.e., parental socialisation values) and 2) examine the relationship between parental involvement in children’s sportive activity and adolescents’ acceptance of their parents’ socialisation values.
From the relative weight analysis (a relatively new data analysis strategy), it emerged that parental involvement characterised by praise and understanding is the most important predictor of adolescents’ willingness to accept their parents’ sport values. Implications of these results and further expansion of the study are discussed.
