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Elite) more typically dropped out because of too much pressure and injury. In fact, many elite dropouts indicated that injury was the most important reason for their withdrawal from sport. Two separate studies with Spanish athletes [39] and soccer dropouts [35],by the same author team, had findings consistent with each other and similar to other previously published studies [11,40,41,48], for why children dropped out of their respective sports. Firstly, in 2006, Molinero et al [39] administered the swimming dropout survey used by Gould et al [11], to 561 sport dropouts aged 14-24 years from a range of sports such as athletics, basketball, A Systematic Review of the Factors Which Are Most Influential… 21 gymnastics, handball, karate, soccer, judo, tennis, swimming and volleyball.

Eight teams made up the experimental group, while ten teams were selected for the notreatment group. Children were recruited from grades 210 from one elementary (primary) school, one middle school and one high school. Up to 249 students were surveyed in the study. 68 female competitive gymnasts aged approximately 9-13 years who participated in one of 3 private clubs. Sample consisted of 83 wrestling participants aged 7-17 years and their parents, as well as 69 coaches from 22 clubs. All completed questionnaires.

Again using the questionnaire developed by Gould et al [11], 309 dropouts, aged 14-18 years, from the sports of soccer (n = 127), basketball (n = 122) and volleyball (n = 60) were surveyed and the self-rated importance of each reason compared across participants from the three sports. As with their previous study [39], dropout reasons related to injury, the level of physical challenge, the learning of new skills and use of equipment/facilities were not included in the final questionnaire. 18). These findings are consistent with Molinero and colleagues‘ earlier study [39] and similar to those in the other studies already discussed [11,40,41,48].