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Stability of context in sport and exercise across educational transitions in adolescence: hello work, goodbye sport club?
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Abstract Background: The present study firstly aimed to identify context patterns in sport and exercise among adolescents at lower and upper secondary education. The organisational, social and competitive contexts of leisure-time sport and exercise were included as pattern indicators. The second aim was to e... view more
Background: The present study firstly aimed to identify context patterns in sport and exercise among adolescents at lower and upper secondary education. The organisational, social and competitive contexts of leisure-time sport and exercise were included as pattern indicators. The second aim was to examine the stability of these patterns across educational transition. The last aim was to investigate whether a subjective evaluation of the transition influences whether people stay in the same pattern across time. Methods: One-year longitudinal data of 392 adolescents were analysed. Results: Both before and after the educational transition, four context patterns were identified: the traditional competitive club athletes with friends, the self-organised individualists, the non-club-organised sportspersons and the mostly inactives. More than half of the individuals stayed in the same pattern across time. When individuals changed pattern, their change was most often from the self-organised individualists and the non-club-organised to the mostly inactives. A subjective evaluation of the transition influenced the stability of only the traditional competitive club athletes with friends. The chance of these people staying in the same pattern decreased with increased transitional stress. Conclusions: Knowledge about the stability and change of context patterns can be used to make recommendations for policy strategies and to develop more individually-tailored promotion programs.... view less
Keywords
physical exercise; adolescent; career start; sports; incident; socioecological factors; leisure time behavior; competitive sports; sports club
Classification
Leisure Research
Medical Sociology
Free Keywords
person-oriented approach; social-ecological framework; life event; ZIS 92
Document language
English
Publication Year
2022
Page/Pages
p. 1-15
Journal
BMC Public Health, 22 (2022)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-021-12471-4
ISSN
1471-2458
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed