Happiness, pride and elite sporting success: What population segments gain most from national athletic achievements?

Hallmann, Kirstin; Breuer, Christoph; Kühnreich, Benedikt

doi:10.1016/j.smr.2012.07.001

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“…The belief in sports' societal benefits and its capacity to enhance public welfare are frequently utilized as key arguments for legitimizing state subsidies of high performance sports (e.g. Atkinson et al 2008;Hallmann et al 2013). Besides international reputation und prestige, national pride and happiness are often-quoted outcomes of national sporting success at mega sporting events.…”

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“…Some studies have thus focused on the potential role of athletic success. In a German study, it was reported that two thirds of the Germans agree with the statement 'I am happy if German athletes win many medals at Olympic Games or World Championships' (Hallmann et al 2013). A Dutch study points to a small, short-term increase in SWB during the 2010 FIFA World Cup, where a surprisingly strong Dutch national team advanced to the tournament's final (Elling et al 2014).…”

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“…Prior research on the relationship of sporting success with happiness and life satisfaction has mainly applied crosssectional research designs, which cannot account for causality. Hence, panel studies are called for (Hallmann et al 2013). When existing large-scale data sets are used, another problem occurs: Many respondents are interviewed weeks or months after a particular sport event, so that any effect on life satisfaction that may have existed during the event may have weakened considerably.…”

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Life Satisfaction and the UEFA EURO 2016: Findings from a Nation-Wide Longitudinal Study in Germany

Mutz

2018

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Research on sport events and well-being yield inconclusive results with some studies suggesting that well-being is increasing during major sport events while other studies fail to establish such a relationship. The present study aims at investigating the relationship between sport events and life satisfaction more closely, while at the same time avoiding some methodical pitfalls of prior research. The study uses a representative sample from Germany and had a longitudinal design, covering the time before, during and after the UEFA EURO 2016. Findings demonstrate a significant increase in life satisfaction in Germany during the football competition (d = .17). Further analyses reveal that satisfaction with life is elevated particularly among subjects with a genuine interest in football in general and in the EURO in particular, whereas for those respondents uninterested in football, changes in life satisfaction were mostly insignificant and marginal in size. However, two months after the EURO life satisfaction was already on the decline and drifted towards the baseline level. Hence, the EURO did not produce a persistent change, but rather a short peak in life satisfaction among football affine groups.

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Life Satisfaction and the UEFA EURO 2016: Findings from a Nation-Wide Longitudinal Study in Germany

Mutz

2018

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“…Research Question 3: Furthermore, little is known about the sociodemographics of sportive nationalism. Previous research has indicated that lower educated individuals as well as those actively involved in sports score higher in sportive nationalism (Denham, 2010;Elling et al, 2014;Hallmann et al, 2013;Haut et al, 2016). However, findings on age, gender, income, and political orientation reveal contradictory patterns.…”

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Sport-Related National Pride in East and West Germany, 1992-2008

Meier

Mutz

2016

Sage Open

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It is commonly assumed that international sport reinforces feelings of national pride and national identity. Using large-scale survey data from Germany, covering the period between 1992 and 2008, some unresolved key questions surrounding sportive nationalism are addressed. We examine the relative importance of sport as a source of national pride, analyze the sociodemographics of sportive nationalism, and describe its long-term development in East and West Germany after reunification. Results reveal that sport is an increasingly important source of pride in Germany. Sportive nationalism is more common among younger generations, males, and individuals with lower socioeconomic status. Prevailing differences between East and West Germany document persistent socialization effects of former sport-centered identity politics. Among East Germans, sport is more important for general national pride, and sportive nationalism is much more equally distributed between various social groups (with regard to age, gender, education). From 1992 to 2008, however, a trend toward convergence between East and West Germans is also demonstrated.

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“…Some researchers claim that to host an event leads to greater subjective well-being (Kavetsos & Szymanski,2010;Pawlowski, Downward, & Rasciute, 2013). Researchers have considered national pride (Hallmann, Breuer & Kühnreich, 2013;De Bosscher, Bingham, Shibli, Van Bottenburg, & De Knop, 2008), but local pride has thus far not been systematically investigated.…”

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‘We can do it’: Community, resistance, social solidarity, and long-term volunteering at a sport event

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Happiness, pride and elite sporting success: What population segments gain most from national athletic achievements?

Cited by 101 publications

References 50 publications

Life Satisfaction and the UEFA EURO 2016: Findings from a Nation-Wide Longitudinal Study in Germany

Life Satisfaction and the UEFA EURO 2016: Findings from a Nation-Wide Longitudinal Study in Germany

Sport-Related National Pride in East and West Germany, 1992-2008

‘We can do it’: Community, resistance, social solidarity, and long-term volunteering at a sport event

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