Building social capital through sport engagement: evidence for adults aged 50 years and older
| dc.contributor.author | Sánchez-Santos, José Manuel | |
| dc.contributor.author | Rungo, Paolo | |
| dc.contributor.author | Lera López, Fernando | |
| dc.contributor.department | Institute for Advanced Research in Business and Economics - INARBE | en |
| dc.contributor.funder | Universidad Pública de Navarra / Nafarroako Unibertsitate Publikoa | es |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-06-27T11:02:33Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2022-06-27T11:02:33Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2022 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2022-06-27T11:02:33Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | Involvement in sports is considered a powerful way to generate social capital. However, the role of sport engagement in the development of social relationships of older adults has not received much attention. Remarkably, there is a lack of empirical evidence on the quality and diversity of social relations built through active sport participation and spectatorship. This paper attempts to assess the relationship between sport engagement and various measures of network social capital, including the extension and quality of social networks and the heterogeneity of personal relationships. Also, it proposes new and more informative measurements of an individual's quantity and quality of social ties. By analysing data from a survey in Spain (N = 600) and applying logistic regressions, the results show that sport participation and attendance at sporting events are closely related to different dimensions of network social capital. Concerning people who are not actively engaged in sports, more extensive social networks characterise those who frequently attend sporting events. In contrast, active sport participation is associated with the extensity and quality measures of social connectedness, the level of satisfaction with friends and the opportunity to enjoy close relationships. Therefore, this paper provides new evidence on how sport engagement may result in tighter and extensive networks for older adults and serve as support for emphasising sports, physical activity and leisure as strategies for maintaining and boosting older people's social and psychological health. | en |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad, Spain (JMS-S and PR, grant number CSO2017-86178-R); and the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Spain (FL-L, grant number PID2020-115018RB-C31). Open access funding was provided by the Public University of Navarra. | en |
| dc.format.extent | 26 p. | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.citation | Sánchez-Santos, J.M.; Rungo, P.; Lera-López, F.. (2022). Building social capital through sport engagement: evidence for adults aged 50 years and older. Ageing and Society. 1-26 . | en |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1017/S0144686X22000046 | |
| dc.identifier.issn | 0144-686X | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://academica-e.unavarra.es/handle/2454/43227 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en |
| dc.publisher | Cambridge | en |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Ageing and Society, 2022, pp. 1-26 | en |
| dc.relation.projectID | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013-2016/CSO2017-86178-R/ES/ | |
| dc.relation.projectID | info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/AEI/Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2017-2020/PID2020-115018RB-C31/ES/ | |
| dc.relation.publisherversion | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0144686X22000046 | |
| dc.rights | © The Author(s), 2022. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence, which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution and reproduction, provided the original article is properly cited. | |
| dc.rights.accessRights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | |
| dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
| dc.subject | Older adults | en |
| dc.subject | Individual social capital | en |
| dc.subject | Social networks | en |
| dc.subject | Personal relationships | en |
| dc.subject | Relational goods | en |
| dc.subject | Social trust | en |
| dc.subject | Sport engagement | en |
| dc.title | Building social capital through sport engagement: evidence for adults aged 50 years and older | en |
| dc.type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article | |
| dc.type.version | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion | |
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