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The Role of Running Involvement in Creating Self-Sufficiency for Homeless Individuals Through a Community-Based Running Program
- Source :
- Journal of Sport Management. 27:439-452
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- Human Kinetics, 2013.
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Abstract
- The current study investigated the role of running involvement in helping improve the lives of a homeless population through an examination of a community-based program that utilizes running as a means to promote self-sufficiency. Data collected from 148 individuals before and after their participation in the program for one month revealed participants increased their psychological involvement in running. A regression analysis further indicated that the participants’ perceived self-sufficiency from participating in the program was significantly explained by the extent of their increase in running involvement. These findings highlight the role of enhanced involvement in sport, in particular in the form of running, in creating important psychological benefits for homeless individuals, and provide theoretical implications for the literature on sport-for-development.
- Subjects :
- Homeless population
Community based
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management
Self reliance
business.industry
General Decision Sciences
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Orthopedics and Sports Medicine
Regression analysis
Psychology
business
Social psychology
Self-sufficiency
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1543270X and 08884773
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Sport Management
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........a94a9e082fb19fdf432bef3dcd0cf74a