2 | 51 A new life stage, a new sport activity? a sport likely decreases when they begin to work, as they will have less leisure time at their disposal (Nomaguchi & Bianchi, 2004). In addition to reduced leisure time, working yields new social resources. Starting a job expands a person’s social network, as new work-related contacts are made, including co-workers and business relations. This also means that there is a diminished need to participate in sport activities for social reasons. This suggests the following hypothesis: Starting a paid job reduces the odds of starting a sport. Participation in a competitive club sport takes up relatively more time, compared to participation in other forms of sport. Participation in a competitive club sport is also the most difficult kind of sport activity to organise, though it does provide the greatest number of new contacts. Because a person who starts a job has less leisure time, and builds up new social contacts via the job, participation in a competitive club sport becomes more difficult for them to fit in. He or she will, moreover, have less need to expand their social network via sport activities – in addition to the relative difficulty of combining the demands of a competitive club sport with working life. We therefore expect the following: Starting a paid job reduces the odds of starting a competitive club sport, compared to starting a sport in some other organisational form. Moving out to live on one’s own Within the parental home, children generally have few tasks to perform and do not need to support themselves. When someone moves out of the parental home to set up their own household, circumstances change. Activities that were performed by the parents must now be done independently. That reduces the amount of leisure time available, meaning that time constraints increase. Social resources likely change as well when someone moves out to live on their own. Within the parental home, social contacts are automatically bound up with family, friends (of the parents) and the neighbourhood. Leaving home diminishes the stock of social resources. Starting a sport may be able to compensate for this. However, because we expect the increased time constraints to be most influential here, our hypothesis is the following: Moving out to live on one’s own reduces the odds of starting a sport. When it comes to choosing the organisational form, however, the social aspects are expected to dominate. Participation in a competitive club sport yields a
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