Parents\' Passion and Role Modeling Effects on Children\'s Participation in Physical Activities

The prediction of parents’ passion of children’s expectancy and value beliefs as well as sport participation was examined. Four hundred and ninety-eight families from Taiwan with children of 5 or 6 grades volunteered to participate in this study.

Parents’ harmonious passion and obsessive passion as well as children’s expectancy and value beliefs in sport, intensity and frequency of physical activities, were measured. A series of standard multiple regressions showed that parents’ harmonious passion was the only predictor of children’s frequency, competence expectancy, and task value in physical activities. No other significant predictions were found.