Unveiling the urban sports landscape: Profiling participants, motives, and policy implications.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The lack of knowledge regarding urban sports poses pressing challenges for governments and sports organisations to deal with in light of its increasing popularity. To develop targeted policy strategies, more insight is needed into the features of urban sports. Therefore, this research aims to establish a profile of urban sports participants in terms of characteristics, behaviours in sports participation, and motives for sports participation.

Methods

Data was gathered during a large-scale research project on sports participation in the Belgian city of Bruges. A total of 3,951 residents between 6 and 75 years old participated in an online survey. Descriptive statistics and binomial logistic regression analyses were used to examine the differences between urban and t

SUBMITTER: Huyghe J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11226041 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature