5 | 129 Career, family, and sport participation: a simultaneous exhibition? on when changes in the sport participation of individuals occur. It indicates that life events play an important role in explaining sport participation over the life course, in particular during the transition to adulthood, as they threaten sustainable sport participation (Gropper et al., 2020). This is problematic, as participating in sport contributes to various valuable aspects of the lives of human beings, such as health, social relations and playfulness, as well as being considered a meaningful end in itself by many people (Coenders et al., 2017; Eime et al., 2013; Reiner et al., 2013; Seippel, 2006). An important question that remains, is why and how these major life events affect sport participation? Theoretically, the answer to these questions can be framed within the neo-Weberian tradition of explaining social action from a resource perspective (Bourdieu, 1978; Breen, 2005; Coleman, 1990; Sugden & Tomlinson, 2000; Weber, 1978), which learns us that opportunities and hindrances that individuals have for gaining access to scarce and valued outcomes – like practising sport – are distributed according to the resources available to an individual (Kraaykamp et al., 2013). The occurrence of major life events can alter, for example, the temporal, social, physical, mental and economic resources a person can draw on. Hence, changes in a person’s sport behaviour during their transition to adulthood may be interpreted as an alteration of their disposition in the field of sport for adapting to new configurations of leisure time, social surroundings, finances and their physical and mental state associated with the occurrence of major life events. However, empirical insight in this underlying mechanism via which major life events affect sport participation is scarce (Borgers et al., 2016b; Engel & Nagel, 2011; Pilgaard, 2013; Van Houten et al., 2014, 2017; Van Houten et al., 2019). Opening this “black box” is indispensable for understanding people’s considerations, choices and changes regarding practising sport when confronted with major life events (Gropper et al., 2020), and essential for the development of interventions to encourage sustainable sport participation, in particular during the transition to adulthood. The current study aims to fill this gap in literature, pursuing several advancements. First, focussing on sport participation within a specific life phase and linking it to multiple major life events within different life domains that mark this phase and the associated changes in resources, allows us to clarify and deepen the understanding of the dynamics in individuals’ lives in a particular period within the life course, and the place of sport therein (Bell & Lee, 2005; Engberg et
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