Childhood and Adolescent Sports Participation as Predictors of Participation in Sports and Physical Fitness Activities During Young Adulthood

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High School Sport Participation and Subsequent Psychological Well-Being and Physical Activity: The Mediating Influences of Body Image, Physical Competence, and Instrumentality (2009, result): “Research linking childhood and adolescent sport participation to adult physical activity levels has been equivocal with some studies reporting only weak to moderate associations (Ganley and Sherman 2000; Scheerder et al. 2006; Telama et al. 2005) and others suggesting that sport does indeed lead to ”
Mission impossible? Reflecting upon the relationship between physical education, youth sport and lifelong participation (2014, background): “Put another way, although a number of studies purport to demonstrate that childhood and adolescent sports participation can be a significant predictor of young adults’ participation in sports and physical fitness activities (Perkins et al., 2004), it remains to be shown that PE, in itself, has any, ”