What determines (in)effective post-competition parent-child interactions in British Tennis? A conversation analysis of car journeys home.
Although researchers have recently started to investigate naturally occurring parent-child interactions in youth sport, the use of orthographic transcription, combined with video coding or thematic analysis, overlooks the interactional features resulting in researchers potentially over-simplifying s...
| Published in: | Psychology of Sport & Exercise Vol. 79 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Jul2025
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