This article is relevant in relation to the sport industry because this study examined perceived athletic identity, sport commitment, and the effect of sport participation to identify the impact of athletic participation on college students. One of the topics that we explored in class was the landscape of college sports and this article relates to this topic in many ways. In our class, there was a section that happened to mention that there are multiple benefits that emerge from college sports. One benefit that emerged from college sports was that having college athletics plays a factor in adding school spirit and campus cohesion within the student body, which was considered to be a necessity at a large campus. Having this added school spirit
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Research that was done prior to this produced mixed results and conclusions when attempting to generalize the positive outcomes of athletic participation. There was a high level of identification to sport-related roles that correlated with either positive or negative after-effects through athletic participation. These researchers attempted to add to the pre-existing findings by applying different approaches to examine the impact of athletic cooperation. Ultimately, the hypothesis of this research is, “despite the probable negative outcomes associated with athletic participation, participants would be likely to recognize the strong effect of athletic participation on the core benefits, such as character building, improving academic inspiration and performance, and enhancing life-learning skills (Chen & Snyder, 2010, p.180).” Basically, in their hypothesis, the assumption is made that there is negativity that is associated with athletics, yet people who play them can only see positivity when it comes to playing sports. In the current sports industry this topic is important because it is key for people involved with sports to know their identity and role in the …show more content…
This university is an affiliate of the Ohio Valley Conference with a registration size of nearly 9,300 students. Of the 275 students, 59.3% were student-athletes who participated in NCAA sponsored varsity athletics. The university had a total of 322 enrolled student-athletes during the study duration. Of the 112 regular students, nearly 54% of them used to be high school athletes and still actively partook in intramural athletics on campus. Approximately 70% of the partakers (both regular students and athletes) played on team sports such as football, basketball, volleyball, and baseball for the university or intramural/community platform. When it comes to other prominent features of the sample group, roughly 57% of the participants remained upper classmen (juniors or seniors). Forty-percent of the partakers were majors in the College of Education, which is the leading academic unit. This study used a survey on 163 student-athletes and 112 non-athlete students from a NCAA Division-I college. This questionnaire was made and customized from four tools. The instruments are the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale, the Sport Commitment Model, the Life Roles Inventory-Values Scales, and Athletic Involvement on the Social Life. The examination procedure began in January of the spring semester of 2008 and ended in June 2008 at the end of the Summer School-Session. The whole survey
Research that was done prior to this produced mixed results and conclusions when attempting to generalize the positive outcomes of athletic participation. There was a high level of identification to sport-related roles that correlated with either positive or negative after-effects through athletic participation. These researchers attempted to add to the pre-existing findings by applying different approaches to examine the impact of athletic cooperation. Ultimately, the hypothesis of this research is, “despite the probable negative outcomes associated with athletic participation, participants would be likely to recognize the strong effect of athletic participation on the core benefits, such as character building, improving academic inspiration and performance, and enhancing life-learning skills (Chen & Snyder, 2010, p.180).” Basically, in their hypothesis, the assumption is made that there is negativity that is associated with athletics, yet people who play them can only see positivity when it comes to playing sports. In the current sports industry this topic is important because it is key for people involved with sports to know their identity and role in the …show more content…
This university is an affiliate of the Ohio Valley Conference with a registration size of nearly 9,300 students. Of the 275 students, 59.3% were student-athletes who participated in NCAA sponsored varsity athletics. The university had a total of 322 enrolled student-athletes during the study duration. Of the 112 regular students, nearly 54% of them used to be high school athletes and still actively partook in intramural athletics on campus. Approximately 70% of the partakers (both regular students and athletes) played on team sports such as football, basketball, volleyball, and baseball for the university or intramural/community platform. When it comes to other prominent features of the sample group, roughly 57% of the participants remained upper classmen (juniors or seniors). Forty-percent of the partakers were majors in the College of Education, which is the leading academic unit. This study used a survey on 163 student-athletes and 112 non-athlete students from a NCAA Division-I college. This questionnaire was made and customized from four tools. The instruments are the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale, the Sport Commitment Model, the Life Roles Inventory-Values Scales, and Athletic Involvement on the Social Life. The examination procedure began in January of the spring semester of 2008 and ended in June 2008 at the end of the Summer School-Session. The whole survey