Stability of context in sport and exercise across educational transitions in adolescence: hello work, goodbye sport club?

Gut, Vanessa; Schmid, Julia; Imbach, Lars; Conzelmann, Achim (2022). Stability of context in sport and exercise across educational transitions in adolescence: hello work, goodbye sport club? BMC public health, 22(1), p. 152. BioMed Central 10.1186/s12889-021-12471-4

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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.

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:

Gut, Vanessa, Schmid, Julia Maria, Imbach, Lars Jan Rinus, Conzelmann, Achim

Subjects:

700 Arts > 790 Sports, games & entertainment

ISSN:

1471-2458

Publisher:

BioMed Central

Language:

English

Submitter:

Edith Desideria Imthurn

Date Deposited:

23 Feb 2022 15:55

Last Modified:

05 Dec 2022 16:08

Publisher DOI:

10.1186/s12889-021-12471-4

PubMed ID:

35062941

Uncontrolled Keywords:

Physical activity, Youth, Person-oriented approach, Social-ecological framework, Life event

BORIS DOI:

10.48350/165536

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/165536

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