PARENT'S EXPECTATIONS TOWARDS CHILDREN'S ARTISTIC GYMNASTICS EXERCISE

The aim of this study is to determine the reasons for referral of the child in gymnastics such as expectations of success in sport and parent's relation towards exercise. On the sample of 55 fathers and 60 mothers of children athletes, a questionnaire was applied to find out parent's attitudes and expectations for children achievements in artistic gymnastics. Descriptive statistics, correlation and chi-square test were used to get out results. Results of Chi-squared test showed that there is no statistically significant difference between mothers and fathers in reasons to involve their child in gymnastics nor expectations of child's achievements.