Abstract
Organised sport is one potential antidote to the global youth inactivity crisis. Therefore, under-standing why young people drop out constitutes a key research endeavour. In paper 1 of this se-ries, we developed and validated a new Youth Sport Dropout Questionnaire (YSDQ). In paper 2, we used the YSDQ-LV (49-item long version) to examine dropout in 1127 university students from seven European countries. A four-stage analysis investigated the relative and combined im-portance of dropout reasons. Three items – the rocks – were statistically more important: “I prior-itised schoolwork and had no time left to take part in sport”; and “I found other things that I en-joyed doing more than sport”; and “I found it stressful when I did not perform/play as well as I expected”. On average, however, these rocks were rated as “moderately important”, along with 18 reasons (the pebbles) rated as “slightly important to moderately important”, and the remain-ing 26 reasons (the sand) rated as “slightly important to not at all important”. These findings suggest that sport dropout is not caused by a single reason but is underpinned by a dynamic tricky mix of reasons – a series of rocks, pebbles and sand unique to each young person.
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Divisions: | Carnegie School of Sport |
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Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.3390/youth5020051 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Additional Information: | © 2025 by the authors |
SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic |
Depositing User (symplectic) | Deposited by Lara-Bercial, Sergio |
Date Deposited: | 30 May 2025 11:58 |
Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2025 05:26 |
Item Type: | Article |
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