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Sport offers a child an opportunity for physical, social and psychological development, but also has a nurturing effect. According to the UN convention, all children have rights to develop in all aspects of life: physical, emotional, psychosocial, cognitive and cultural (UN, 1991). Children are not small adults and the sport environment has to be adjusted to their specific needs and capacities. To fulfil that mission it is important to know how young athletes and their coaches perceive sport environment regarding children rights. The aim is to investigate how young athletes and their coaches perceive children in general and to compare their perception of children rights. The sample was comprised of 79 young athletes (M=12.9 yr.) and 10 coaches (M=27.2 yr.) from 4 different sports, both sexes were represented. Children rights were investigated by questionnaire constructed for this study based on 2 instruments (Kuterovac et.al. 2000). The results showed that term 'child' was perceived similarly by coaches and children, only in positive way. The exceptions were the attributes 'interesting' (t=10.498, df=76, p.025), said that the right for education is the most important one. Most of them considered their rights to be satisfied in family (M=4.63) and training (M=4.44), but the children think that their rights are not satisfied to such an extent in school (M=3.90 ; t=1.582, df=67, p |
