Parenting Journal · Volume 2 · Issue 4 · Licensed source edition
Perceived parental autonomy support and moral behavior in youth athletes: applying the trans-contextual model
Originally published 2026-03-05 · Frontiers in Psychology
Frontiers Media SA · DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1780952 ↗
Editorial reading guide · Independence
Whose reasons guide the decisions my young athlete makes on and off the field?
This article examines how youth athletes experience parental support for choice and report moral behaviour. The family question centres on who owns a decision and how a young person experiences adult support.
Who was studied?
Three hundred and fifty-five high-school athletes in Korea across sixteen sports.
Age / stage: High school
Read with three questions
- What does the article establish about how youth athletes experience parental support for choice and report moral behaviour?
- Whose perspective was recorded, and what might an independent observer have described differently?
- How closely does the population described here match the family or setting you have in mind? The population to compare is three hundred and fifty-five high-school athletes in Korea across sixteen sports.
Keep the limits in view
The measures reflect what respondents reported. Associations alone cannot distinguish the direction of influence or exclude other explanations.
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Yeonho Choi; Youngkyun Sim; Kisun Hwang; Junsu Bae (2026). Perceived parental autonomy support and moral behavior in youth athletes: applying the trans-contextual model Frontiers in Psychology. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1780952
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