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Self-health promotion: A study on the mode of acquiring sports health knowledge and skills among older adults members of sports communities.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The research aims to construct a mode and the pathway relationships of acquiring sports health knowledge and skills among members of older adults sports communities.

Method

The research was primarily conducted through random sampling, purposive sampling, and questionnaire surveys. A sample of 457 older adults from Luoyang City was selected as the research subjects. Exploratory analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were conducted by employing SPSS 26.0 and Amos 26.0 software(Exploratory analysis and structural equation analysis).

Results

The study indicates that the influence of older adults sports community culture on the pursuit of sports health knowledge and skills is statistically significant (β = 0.69, P<0.001); the influence of sports community culture on the motivation to enhance sports health knowledge and skills is statistically significant (β = 0.32, P<0.001); the influence of the pursuit of sports health knowledge and skills on the motivation to enhance these knowledge and skills is statistically significant (β = 0.47, P<0.001); the influence of the motivation to enhance sports health knowledge and skills on the behavior of acquiring these knowledge and skills is statistically significant (β = 0.60, P<0.001); both the pursuit of sports health knowledge and skills and the motivation to enhance these knowledge and skills serve as mediating variables.

Conclusion

The more harmonious and positive the sports community culture is, the stronger the sense of pursuing health and the motivation to acquire knowledge are among older adults. The stronger the health pursuit among older adults, the higher their motivation to enhance sports health knowledge and skills shows. Furthermore, the higher the motivation of older adults to enhance sports health knowledge and skills is, the more efficient their behavior in acquiring these knowledge and skills becomes. The motivation to enhance sports health knowledge and skills serves as a complete mediating variable in this process.

SUBMITTER: Wei Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11239043 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Self-health promotion: A study on the mode of acquiring sports health knowledge and skills among older adults members of sports communities.

Wei Ye Y

PloS one 20240711 7

<h4>Objective</h4>The research aims to construct a mode and the pathway relationships of acquiring sports health knowledge and skills among members of older adults sports communities.<h4>Method</h4>The research was primarily conducted through random sampling, purposive sampling, and questionnaire surveys. A sample of 457 older adults from Luoyang City was selected as the research subjects. Exploratory analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were conducted by employing SPSS 26.0 and Amos ...[more]

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