Who Stays On? The Link between Psychosocial Patterns and Changes in Exercise and Sport Behaviour When Adolescents Make Transitions in Education

Schmid, Julia; Gut, Vanessa; Yanagida, Takuya; Conzelmann, Achim (2020). Who Stays On? The Link between Psychosocial Patterns and Changes in Exercise and Sport Behaviour When Adolescents Make Transitions in Education. Applied Psychology: Health and Well-Being, 12(2), pp. 312-334. Wiley-Blackwell 10.1111/aphw.12186

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Background: The first aim of the present study was to identify psychosocial patterns among adolescents at lower secondary school. Employing the motivation and volition process model and a socioecological framework, self-concordance, action planning, social support, and club-related exercise and sport activities were included as indicators. The second aim was to examine how these patterns are associated with the maintenance of exercise and sport during students’ transition to upper secondary education. The last aim was to investigate whether the associations were moderated by individuals’ subjective evaluation of the transition.
Methods: One-year longitudinal data of 392 adolescents were analysed. All variables were measured via online self-report.
Results: Based on latent profile analysis, four patterns were found: “averages”, “club enthusiasts”, “club engaged planners”, and “less motivated and social uncommits”. Regression analyses showed that the club engaged planners were more likely to adopt and maintain exercise and sport than to drop out. Additionally, moderation analyses revealed that the averages were less likely to be aintainers/adopters when they evaluated the transition more negatively.
Conclusion: People with relatively high action planning and a high number of club-related activities were less vulnerable to decreasing their activity time during the transition to upper secondary education. Furthermore, transitional stress bore no negative association with students’ exercise and sport behaviour.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW)
07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW) > Sport Psychology and Research Methods

UniBE Contributor:

Schmid, Julia Maria, Gut, Vanessa, Conzelmann, Achim

Subjects:

700 Arts > 790 Sports, games & entertainment
600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health

ISSN:

1758-0846

Publisher:

Wiley-Blackwell

Language:

English

Submitter:

Edith Desideria Imthurn

Date Deposited:

11 Nov 2019 11:06

Last Modified:

02 Mar 2023 23:32

Publisher DOI:

10.1111/aphw.12186

PubMed ID:

31600037

Uncontrolled Keywords:

club, intrinsic motivation, person-oriented approach, planning, social support, (stressful) life event

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.134552

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/134552

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