Does the Effect of Sports Participation on Subjective Well-Being Remain Stable During the COVID-19? National Panel Data from China

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5817/StS2025-1-12" target="_blank" >10.5817/StS2025-1-12</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Does the Effect of Sports Participation on Subjective Well-Being Remain Stable During the COVID-19? National Panel Data from China

Original language description

Sports participation has a positive effect on subjective well-being (SWB); however, few studies have examined the stability of this effect. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak compelled governments to enact lockdown policies to respond to this disaster briefly, causing a huge impact on the residents&apos; lifestyles. This study using the two data sets, the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) 2018 and CGSS 2021 (N= 14203), utilized the unexpected shock of COVID-19 to explore whether the impact of sports participation on SWB had been weakened during COVID-19. The results demonstrated that factors such as sports participation, educational levels, and social capital that were more closely related to lifestyle and cultural shaping had a more stable effect on SWB. Factors such as household income and employment status, which were more closely related to material things, had a significantly weaker effect on SWB during the COVID-19 period. The sex difference in SWB disappeared during this period. The disappearance of sex differences in SWB is related to the different attitudes between men and women regarding the decline in income, based on some previous relevant research. Finally, the rationale for the stable performance of sports participation was analyzed as follows: different motivations for sports participation would have different effects on SWB and individuals may adjust their motivation for participation according to different situations; therefore, the overall effect of sports participation on SWB will remain the same.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30306 - Sport and fitness sciences

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Studia Sportiva

ISSN

1802-7679

e-ISSN

2570-8783

Volume of the periodical

19

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

173-190

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105009109395