Just a stopgap for 'real' sports? Experiences with digital sport and exercise activities during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has led to an increase of digitally supported home-based sport and exercise activities. This paper asks how these digital sport and exercise (DSE) offers are experienced by consumers and compares the experiential value of DSE activities with similar on-site, offline sport and exercise (OSE) activities. The paper is based on cross-sectional online survey data from active members of two university sports centers in Germany. Findings reveal that a relative strength of DSE compared to similar OSE offers is the higher degree of autonomy experienced by users. However, this comes at the expense of the social, physical, affective, competence, and motivational experience. DSE courses are somewhat better rated by self-disciplined and healthy individua

SUBMITTER: Mutz M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10129302 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature