Predictors of Persistent Participation in Youth Sport: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: There are many factors affecting decisions to persistent participation in sports and various approaches have been used to frame these antecedents. The aim of this paper was to systematically review and quantify the primary factors of persistent participation and to assess their respective strengths of association with persistent participation in youth sport. Adhering to the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyzes (PRISMA) guidelines, a comprehensive search was implemented on 31st December 2021 in five databases and meta-analytic procedures were applied to data from studies meeting inclusion criteria. The results revealed that sports enjoyment (meta r = 0.45, 95%CI [0.42, 0.49]) was highly correlated with persistent intention, while persistent intention (SM

SUBMITTER: Zhang M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9196305 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature