- Title
- How to re-engage older adults in community sport? Reasons for drop-out and re-engagement
- Creator
- Jenkin, C.; Eime, Rochelle; van Uffelen, J.; Westerbeek, H.
- Date
- 2021
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/177473
- Identifier
- vital:15301
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1080/02614367.2021.1888310
- Identifier
- ISBN:0261-4367 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Internationally, many sport policies articulate a desire for lifelong participation in sport. However, participation often fluctuates throughout the lifespan and most people drop-out at some stage. Most research on drop-out of sport focuses on children and adolescents, with little attention towards other age groups. The aim of this study was to investigate why adults aged 50+ years dropped out of sport during their life, and how and why they may re-engage later in life. Eight focus groups (n = 49) were conducted, with Australian National Sporting Organisations; adults aged 50+ years, who were either currently involved in sport (e.g. player/volunteer/coach) or not currently involved. The Socio-Ecological Model was used to frame the interview questions, and Leisure Constraints Theory was used to analyse the results. The main themes on drop-out included lack of appropriate playing opportunities; competing priorities; and low priority from sporting organisations. The main themes for re-engagement in sport at an older age included improving physical health; social opportunities, especially with family/friends; and having more leisure time. It is recommended that to re-engage adults aged 50+ years in active sport participation, organisations should focus on providing age appropriate playing opportunities, whilst ensuring that social interaction is an integral focus. © 2021 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- Leisure Studies Vol. 40, no. 4 (2021), p. 441-453
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 1504 Commercial Services; 1506 Tourism; 1608 Sociology; Drop-out; Older adults; Re-engagement; Sport participation
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- Claire Jenkin was supported by a Sport Australia?Victoria University PhD scholarship and Jannique van Uffelen was supported by a Sport Australia?Victoria Senior Research Fellowship. We thank Sport Australia for their support with recruiting the National Sporting Organisations, in addition to the two National Sporting Organisations and the older adults who participated in this study.
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