Perhaps an example is in order. When in the sixth grade, Godbey's daughter wanted
to learn to wrestle. Most other girls did not "want" to wrestle, perhaps because they had
been taught that it was not an activity they "ought" to do. For them, this intrapersonal
constraint was the most powerful deterrent to participation. In the absence of this intrapersonal
constraint, the girl was then faced with the interpersonal constraint of finding
people with whom to wrestle. This obstacle was overcome when the physical education
teacher identified a few smaller, lighter sixth-grade boys willing to wrestle with a girl.
Finally, the structural constraint of location was removed when a separate wrestling mat
was provided after school for her (and eventually a few other girls) to practice wrestling