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According to UN convention, all children have rights to develope in all aspects of life: physical, emotional, psychosocial, cognitive and cultural. Sport offers a child an opportunity for complete development and also has a nurturing effect. Sport psychology accentuates that children are not small adults and the sport environment has to be adjusted to their specific needs and capacities. A coach who understands children needs and cares for their rights provides positive conditions in which a child can give maximum. Motivational climate defined as an achievement environment which is a function of the goals that are to be achieved, of the evaluation and reward process, and of requested relationship of the participants (Seifriz et al., 1995), can influence children perception of their rights fulfilment. Our aim was to investigate how 69 young Croatian athletes (M=12.86 yrs.) perceive their rights’ satisfaction and motivational climate in their clubs, and are there any differences between perceived motivational climate in children whose basic rights in sport environment are satisfied differently. The results showed that children perceive their rights are more satisfied in family (M=4.63) and training (M=4.44), than in school environment (M=3.90). Young athletes whose rights were more satisfied perceive their sport environment as more oriented towards learning, cooperation and skill development (t=5.211 ; df=66 ; p |
