Benefits of activity participation: The roles of identity affirmation and peer group norm sharing.

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Life skills development through sport: current status and future directions (2008, background): “However, with the exception of the work of Eccles and her colleagues (e.g. Barber et al., 2005), almost all research conducted to date is cross-sectional and provides little information about how one develops his or her personal and social skills in the sport context over time.”
Is extracurricular participation associated with beneficial outcomes? Concurrent and longitudinal relations. (2006, background): “The gender effect also may reflect differences in the peer group culture in male and female extracurricular contexts (Barber et al., 2005).”
Extracurricular Involvement and Adolescent Adjustment: Impact of Duration, Number of Activities, and Breadth of Participation (2006, background): “…differences in the peer contexts of sports compared to other extracurricular activities; athletes were more likely than nonathletes to associate with academically oriented peers who also consume large amounts of alcohol (e.g., Barber et al. 2005; Eccles & Barber, 1999; Eccles et al., 2003).”