Promoting Sport for All to Age-specific Target Groups: the Impact of Sport Infrastructure

Wicker, Pamela; Breuer, Christoph; Pawlowski, Tim

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“…Downward and Riordan (2007) identify an association between the shared characteristics of individuals and participation in sports. Farrell and Shields (2002), Downward (2007) and Humphreys and Ruseski (2015) find positive and negative associations between physical activity and marriage depending on the activity, with Wicker et al, (2009) andRuseski et al, (2011) finding mixed effects according to the activity when there are children in the household. Finally, Rapp and Schneider (2013) identify that more formal cohabitation status, such as marriage, reduced physical activity more than cohabitation and dating relationships.…”

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‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

Downward

Rasciute

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

Downward

Rasciute

2016

Social Science & Medicine

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“…Some studies have shown a positive association between the accessibility of sports facilities and sports participation in adults. However, differences were found between different types of sports (Eime et al, 2015;Hallmann et al, 2012;Karusisi, Thomas, Méline, & Chaix, 2013), age groups and gender (Limstrand & Rehrer, 2008;Wicker et al, 2009). Karusisi et al (2013) found a significant association between access to and engagement in sports activities for swimming but not for team sports, racket sports or workouts in gyms in the Paris Ile-de-France region in France.…”

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“…Most prominently, one strand of research has addressed effects of objectively measured accessibility and availability of sports facilities on sports participation and sports frequency (Hallmann, Wicker, Breuer, & Schönherr, 2012;O'Reilly, Berger, Hernandez, Parent, & Séguin, 2015;Wicker, Breuer, & Pawlowski, 2009). In addition, studies have shown the importance of social neighbourhood characteristics such as socio-economic status and safety in explaining differences in sports participation (Beenackers, Kamphuis, Burdorf, Mackenbach, & van Lenthe, 2011;Eime, Charity, Harvey, & Payne, 2015;Hoekman, Breedveld, & Kraaykamp, 2016;Kramer, Stronks, Maas, Wingen, & Kunst, 2015).…”

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Too busy or too far away? The importance of subjective constraints and spatial factors for sports frequency

Deelen

Ettema

Dijst

2016

Managing Sport and Leisure

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Previous studies on the association between the availability of sports facilities and sports participation have neglected the influence of subjective constraints that individuals experience with regard to sports participation. This paper investigates to what extent constraints experienced by sports participants are associated with their spatial circumstances and whether these subjective constraints or objective spatial circumstances have a greater impact on sports frequency. Based on a survey among 776 adults in urban and rural municipalities in the Netherlands, regression analyses revealed that constraints were related to neighbourhood liveability and distance to indoor sports facilities and swimming pools. Time constraints had a strong negative effect on sports frequency, but the effect of distance to indoor facilities and swimming pools was even more important. Our results furthermore indicate a growing need for flexibility in the spatiotemporal organization of sports activities and an increased importance of the public space for sports participation.

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“…These data were acquired through the Public Service of Antwerp. The selected communities were further controlled for environmental variables known to correlate with physical activity: walkability, 14 recreational facilities, 15 accessibility to sports infrastructure, 15,16 accessibility to fitness centers, 16 , and number of sports clubs. 17 Walkability data were acquired through data of population density (number of inhabitants per square kilometer) and street connectivity (number of intersections per square kilometer).…”

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A Capacity Building Approach to Increase Sports Participation in Disadvantaged Urban Communities: A Multilevel Analysis

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Recent evidence showed that community capacity building is one of the key methods to reach health improvements within disadvantaged communities. Physical activity and sports participation are important means to reach health improvements. This study investigates a capacity building method which aims at increasing sports participation in the community, especially for individuals at higher risk of sports deprivation. The main aims of the present study, are the following: (1) to examine differences in sports participation between individuals living in communities implementing a sports-based capacity building program and individuals living in communities without such capacity building program and (2) to investigate if the community sports program reaches the individuals known to experience higher barriers to engage in sports. In Flanders, Belgium, five disadvantaged urban communities implementing the community capacity building program (program communities) and four without (control communities) were selected based on similarity of sociodemographic and environmental characteristics. Two hundred adults (aged 18-56 years) per community were randomly selected and visited at home to fill out a questionnaire on sociodemographics, sports participation, and the community sports program. A sample of 414 adults participated in the study. Results showed that adults from program communities reported on average 96 min/week more participation in sports than their counterparts living in control communities. Furthermore, 61.3 % of the individuals of program communities indicated to engage in sports, whereas in control communities, this was only 42.4 %. Respondents at higher risk of sports deprivation also engaged in significantly more sports participation in program communities than those in control communities. This difference was also noted for groups that are not related with sports deprivation. These results are promising and plead for a community capacity building approach to increase sports participation in disadvantaged communities.

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Promoting Sport for All to Age-specific Target Groups: the Impact of Sport Infrastructure

Cited by 129 publications

References 19 publications

‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

‘No man is an island entire of itself.’ The hidden effect of peers on physical activity

Too busy or too far away? The importance of subjective constraints and spatial factors for sports frequency

A Capacity Building Approach to Increase Sports Participation in Disadvantaged Urban Communities: A Multilevel Analysis

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