Participants new to a sporting activity develop initial motivations while being confronted with a variety of constraints that must be successfully negotiated in order to participate. Further, motivations change over time, as do constraints, but there has been little examination of these concepts with regard to new participants. As such, this study examined why new collegiate club sport members were motivated to join a sport club and what constraints they face. Through semistructured interviews (N = 11) new sport club members reported being motivated by a variety of reasons, while social support acted as a strong facilitator to continued involvement.

参加体育活动的新参与者在遇到各种限制条件时必须培养出最初的动机，而这些限制条件必须通过谈判才能成功参与。此外，动机随时间变化，约束也随时间而变化，但是很少有关于新参与者的对这些概念的研究。因此，本研究调查了为什么新的大学俱乐部体育成员被激励加入体育俱乐部，以及他们面临的制约因素。通过半结构化访谈（N = 11），新的体育俱乐部成员表示受到各种原因的激励，而社会支持则成为继续参与的有力推动者。