The comparison between students trends to individual and team sports based on parenting styles, parental attachment styles and psychological well-being

The present study was carried out to compare tendency of performing individual and group-based sports among students, in accordance with parenting styles and parents' psychological attachment and well being. This was a causative-comparative study. Participants was all parents of elementary pupils at Isfahan city, region six, that have been referred to athletic clubs for doing special sports, besides passing physical education lecture and sport course at the school. A total of 120 subjects were selected via multistage cluster sampling method. The Hazen and Shiver attachment style questionnaire (1987), Baumrind parenting questionnaire (1989) and Rif's psychological well being (1980) was used for collecting information. Data was analyzed using SPSS-21 software and multivariate variance analysis. The results of this study showed that there is neither significant difference in nor components of psychological well being with parents in tendency to group-based and individual sports (P>0.05). According to the results, there is a significant difference between parenting styles and attachment (safe attachment and assertive parenting style) in students tendency to individual and team sports (P<0.05). It seems that parenting styles and attachment styles can impact on students' tendency to individual and team sports.