Patterns of sports participation across the lifespan and their links to psychopathology, resilience, and childhood trauma: a cross-sectional approach.
Participation in sports varies considerably among individuals, with many changing their chosen sports over time. This raises critical questions regarding which types of sports, and at what life stage, contribute most to mental health. To address this, we used latent class analysis to identify unobse...
| Publicado en: | International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology Vol. 23; no. 8; pp. 1545 - 1567 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Dec2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=190352647&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 190352647 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1612197X UXG jtl: International Journal of Sport & Exercise Psychology issn: 1612197X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Dec2025 vid: 23 iid: 8 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd artinfo: ui: 190352647 10.1080/1612197X.2024.2431252 ppf: 1545 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 716KB tig: atl: Patterns of sports participation across the lifespan and their links to psychopathology, resilience, and childhood trauma: a cross-sectional approach. aug: au: Janković, Marija Sijtsema, Jelle Haselhorst, Charlotte Bogaerts, Stefan affil: Department of Developmental Psychology, Tilburg University, Tilburg, The Netherlands Fivoor Science and Treatment Innovation (FARID), Rotterdam, The Netherlands Department of Educational Science, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands su: Sports participation Mental health Pathological psychology Adverse childhood experiences Sociodemographic factors Life cycles (Biology) Latent class analysis (Statistics) Psychological resilience sug: subj: Sports participation Mental health Pathological psychology Adverse childhood experiences Sociodemographic factors Offices of Mental Health Practitioners (except Physicians) Life cycles (Biology) Latent class analysis (Statistics) Psychological resilience keyword: childhood trauma individuals sports psychopathological symptoms resilience team sports childhood trauma individuals sports psychopathological symptoms resilience team sports ab: Participation in sports varies considerably among individuals, with many changing their chosen sports over time. This raises critical questions regarding which types of sports, and at what life stage, contribute most to mental health. To address this, we used latent class analysis to identify unobserved classes of individuals based on their sports participation across the lifespan and to explore how these classes differ in resilience, psychopathological symptoms, and overall childhood trauma. Additionally, we investigated whether the effect of sports class membership on psychopathological symptoms and resilience varies across different levels of childhood trauma. Analyses accounted for sociodemographics. The sample included 749 community individuals (69.6% females) aged 18–82. Five distinct classes emerged: individual sports, team sports, individual sports up to 18 years of age, mixed sports, and no sports. The classes differed in mean levels of childhood trauma, resilience, and psychopathological symptoms related to agoraphobia, anxiety, somatic complaints, social phobia, and (lack of) vitality, but showed no differences in symptoms related to aggression, depression, cognitive complaints, and work dysfunction. Overall, the no sports class exhibited the lowest resilience and the most severe psychopathological symptoms. Continued participation in team sports, alone or combined with individual sports, particularly during adolescence, appeared more beneficial than participation in just individual sports. While childhood trauma did not moderate outcomes, individuals with greater trauma exposure were more likely to avoid sports, particularly team sports, or to stop playing sports entirely in adulthood. Our findings highlight the potential negative impact of sports inactivity on mental health. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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