Personal reasons for withdrawal from team sports and the influence of significant others among youth athletes

International Journal of Sports Science and Coaching

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 19-32

  Rottensteiner, Christoph ^a,b   Laakso, Lauri ^b   Pihlaja, Tuomo ^a   Konttinen, Niilo ^a  

^a KIHU Research Institute for Olympic Sports   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

Author keywords

Dropout; Gender; Parents; Peers; Siblings; Sport Coaches; Youth Sport

Indexed keywords

EID: 84879565551     PISSN: 17479541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1260/1747-9541.8.1.19     Document Type: Article

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