The main theme of the study is to determine the impact of parental support on the sports participation of the student-athletes (male & female) at Universities level Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. The survey modal approach was selected in the present study. Total 284 male and 125 female student-athletes were included in this study. The researcher has used 5 question form of personal information for getting the demographic features of the participants and also used adapted scale of Sports participation developed by Diane De Gill to analyze the parental approach towards the sports participation of their children (Gill, Gross, & Huddleston, 1983). According the results, the participation of male student-athletes were reported more than female student-athletes. The study has concluded that male student-athletes receive more social, emotional and financial support from their parents in term of sports participation as compared to female student-athletes.

The main focus of present study was to examine effect of socio-economic status (social and financial support) upon the motivation of student-athletes of all public sector universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Pakistan. The present study has also been focused upon mediating role of coach behavior in motivation the student-athletes. Cross-sectional research design was used for present study. The 1754 male and 190 female student-athletes were selected as population of the study. Three different extracted variables from the literature i.e. Socio-economic status (predictor) athlete motivation (criterion) and coach behavior (mediator). The polite testing was practiced for the purpose of reliability with help of Cronbach alpha coefficient. The Cronbach alpha score of socio-economic status scale was .729, coach behavior .729 and athlete motivation .843 which is fall in good zone. Personal visit was made for data collection by researcher. The return rate of responses was observed 90% (151 out 171). The process of Baron and Kenny approach was used for mediation with help of SPSS version 26 for analyses. The results of the current study indicated that there is a significant role of the coach behavior as mediator between the socio-economic status and athlete motivation of student-athletes. The results of the study also determined that socio-economic status have significant impact on athlete motivation level.