¹Sinta Prismaning Astiti,²Muhammad Hamid Anwar,³Muh. Rinaldy,⁴Ujang Nurdin,⁵Afeb Chesa Arianto

^1,2,3,4,5Department of Sport Science, Yogyakarta State University, Yogyakarta Indonesia

The role of psychological aspects, especially in providing social support to children, is an important factor that affects sports achievement. This study aims to determine the role of parents in supporting children's achievements in swimming training. This research is descriptive quantitative. The study population was the parents of swimming athletes totaling 52 people. The sampling technique used total sampling. The instrument used a questionnaire. Data analysis using descriptive percentage. The results showed that the role of parents in supporting children's achievements in swimming training was in the "very less" category of 1.92% (1 person), "less" by 34.62% (18 people), "enough" by 23.08% (12 people), "good" by 40.38% (21 people), and "very good" by 0.00% (0 people). The role of parents in supporting children's achievements in swimming training based on an average value of 82.02 is in the moderate category.

parental role, child achievement, swimming training

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