Prior studies extensively examined the way sports club membership can lead to beneficial affective outcomes. Prior experiments also found that team sports, intensive sports, and sports that are frequently pursued can lead to even more affective benefits. However, no prior studies examined the differences between the affective benefits of specific sports. Based on prior results, we supposed that certain sports that meet all the previously set criteria—will provide the greatest affective benefits. The present large-scale investigation examined the data of adolescents (N = 12,849, female = 5,812, aged between 10 and 18, Mage = 12.56 years, and SDage = 2.00) and aimed to fill this gap. Firstly, the results showed that—although differences in affect can be found between the lack of club membership and most of the sports club memberships—the differences between the specific sports are less striking. Secondly, the sports that are associated with the highest level of positive and the lowest level of negative affectivity are not necessarily the ones expected. Finally, adolescents who practice athletics, reported the lowest means of negative, and the highest means of positive affect. However, it did not differ significantly from the results regarding the most practiced sport in France: soccer. Our results suggest that soccer as the most practice sport among French adolescents was associated with more positive affects than the majority of the 10 most licensed members French sports practiced by teens between 2008 and 2019. All in all, being a member of a sports club is associated with affective benefits, and some specific sports clubs can have some extra benefits.

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Fondé sur une série d’enquêtes portant sur les violences commises dans le football amateur, cet article interroge le caractère problématique des matériaux discursifs. En sociologie, l’incertitude de la parole est généralement formulée en termes de rapports entre discours rétrospectifs et réalité passée. Dans le cas traité ici, le caractère inobservable du phénomène étudié renforce cette incertitude, confrontant l’enquêteur à des discours singulièrement fragiles. Plus encore, les discours sur les violences abondent mais s’appuient rarement sur l’expérience directe des enquêtés. Cela nous conduit à caractériser le statut de ces locuteurs et informateurs et à le définir par l’expression paradoxale de témoins potentiels. Puis, nous qualifions le caractère problématique des discours collectés, en distinguant des récits d’expérience, des récits canoniques et des récits identitaires, considérés comme autant de manières de constituer, raconter et argumenter les phénomènes de violence.