Bakker, Emma (2024) Unraveling the relationship between Sports Engagement and Life Satisfaction: A study for all Ages. Bachelor thesis, Sociology.
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Abstract
In the Netherlands, many people spend their free time doing sports. It is a rather popular activity to do in one’s leisure time. Since so many people are active in sports, it would be interesting to know if this might affect life in a positive way. Many researchers and sociologists have tried to study the concept of life satisfaction and figure out what factors in life are influential in predicting life satisfaction. In this study, the main goal was to figure out whether sports and life satisfaction are positively related to each other. In addition, the effect of age on this relationship was also examined. For this research, the LISS panel was used as our dataset. Since this study focused on Dutch individuals of all ages, a subset of the dataset that consists of Dutch participants only was used. The participants completed several questionnaires and from these, we created several variables to test the effect of sport on life satisfaction. Beforehand, it was expected that people who spend more time on sports would show a higher level of satisfaction than people who spend less time on sports. We also expected that this positive effect would be higher for younger people than for older people. However, these results turned out to be incorrect. The opposite was found. People who spend more time on sports would as a consequence show a small decrease in their life satisfaction than people who spend less time practicing sports. Also, no effect of age was found on the relationship between sport and life satisfaction. The effect of sport on life satisfaction was the same for all ages. The unexpected results invite us to conduct this study again, but this time taking into account the violation of certain assumptions and having a more accurate sample where all ages are equally presented.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Giardini, F. |
| Degree programme: | Sociology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Sociology] |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2024 13:11 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2024 13:11 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/3802 |
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