When do young adults stop practising a sport?
an event history analysis on the impact of four major life events (INTERN)
This article investigates the relationship between four major life events and stopping sport participation in young adulthood. The authors employ a neo-Weberian theoretical framework related to changes in temporal and social resources to explain how beginning to work, starting to live on one’s own, starting to cohabit or getting married, and the birth of one’s first child affect the risk to stop practising a sport and to end a sport club membership. They used detailed retrospective life-course data from the Dutch SportersMonitor 2010 on 3540 individuals to examine the sport careers and major life events of young adults (aged 18–35).
Literatuurverwijzing: Houten, J.M.A. van, Kraaykamp, G., & Breedveld, K. (2015). When do young adults stop practising a sport?: an event history analysis on the impact of four major life events (INTERN). International review for the sociology of sport 52 (pp. 858-874)