Explaining differences in sport participation rates among young adults: Evidence from the South Caucasus

By Diane Birchwood, Ken Roberts, G. Pollock. 2008

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Habitus and social class: a case study on socialisation into sports and exercise (2015, background): “Furthermore, contrary to many other studies (e.g. Birchwood et al., 2008; Jakobsson et al., 2012), this research focussed not only on sports at a club, but all ‘recreational physical activities’ that the children understood as sports and exercise.”
Parenting in relation to children’s sports participation: generational changes and potential implications (2014, background): “An emerging body of research suggests that socialisation in the family, and by parents in particular, can have a profound and lasting effect on individuals’ sports participation over the life course (Birchwood et al, 2008 ; Evans & Davies, 2010 ; van Tuyckom & Scheerder, 2010 ).”
Mission impossible? Reflecting upon the relationship between physical education, youth sport and lifelong participation (2014, methodology): “…(and, for that matter, drop-off rates from leisure-sport and physically active recreation in youth and young adulthood remain notoriously heavy (Birchwood et al., 2008), when taken together the findings from the studies of Scheerder et al. (2005a, 2005b) and Smith (2006), for example,…”