1 | 25 Synthesis Table 1.2 Overview of empirical studies MAJOR LIFE EVENTS Becoming a student Leaving full-time education Beginning work Moving out to live on one’s own Engaging in an intimate relationship Starting to cohabit or getting married Becoming a parent Children leaving the parental home Retirement Starting a sport in general and in a club setting (Chapter 2) SportersMonitor 2010 DATA METHOD SportersMonitor 2010 Netherlands Longitudinal Lifecourse Study (NELLS) 2009-2013 Primary narrative data (own collection drawn from interviews) Event history analyses Event history analyses Multilevel “withinbetween” modelling & Multinomial logistic regression analyses Micro-level analysis of lived experiences based on a narrative approach Stopping a sport and ending club membership (Chapter 3) Number of sports, sport frequency and sport settings (Chapter 4) Why and how sport is affected by major life events (Chapter 5) when their children left home and upon retirement. The odds of starting a sport decreased when their first child was born. Finally, becoming active in a competitive club sport was stimulated by moving out and retirement, but inhibited by cohabitation or marriage. Based on these results, I conclude that experiencing major life events has consequences for sport participation, in terms of increasing or decreasing the likelihood of starting a sport in general, and more particularly, starting a sport in a demanding organisational form, that is, a competitive club setting.
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