3 | 91 When do young adults stop practising a sport? 8 and 12, compared to respondents who did not practise sport frequently in their childhood. Lastly, looking at the individual characteristics, Model 2 from Table 3.2 shows that, in young adulthood, women had higher risks to stop practising a sport (b=0.312) and end a sport club membership (b=0.348), compared to men. Age was negatively related to stopping participation in a sport (b=–0.018) and ending a sport club membership (b=–0.031), indicating a reduced risk of stopping at older ages. Period had a small but significant positive effect on the risk to stop practising a sport (b=0.004), which indicates that the risk of dropping out of a sport in young adulthood increased over the years (1948– 2010). This could be because over time more people began practising sport and thus more were at risk of stopping sport participation in general. Period had no significant effect on the risk of ending a sport club membership. A higher educational level increased the risk to stop practising a sport (b=0.093), but it did not affect club membership. This may be explained by the fact that higher educated respondents were more likely to practise one or more sports compared to lower educated respondents (Bart Vanreusel et al., 2002), and therefore they were more often at risk of stopping. With regard to migration background, our results show that non-natives of non-Western origin were less at risk of stopping participation in a sport (b=–0.172) and ending a sport club membership (b=–0.230) than Dutch natives, probably because natives more frequently practised a sport and thus were generally more at risk of stopping sport participation and ending sport club membership than non-natives of non-Western origin (Janssens & Verweel, 2014). There were no significant differences between Dutch natives and non-natives of Western origin. CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION This study investigated the impact of four major life events (beginning to work, starting to live on one’s own, starting to cohabit or getting married, and birth of one’s first child) on the risks to stop practising a sport and end a sport club membership in young adulthood (ages 18–35). We developed a theoretical
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