A study of the determinants of sports participation by maltese nationals
| Autor: | Simon Grima, Sharon Seychell, Eleftherios Thalassinos, Alan Grima, Jonathan Spiteri |
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Public policy Health education -- Malta Obesity -- Malta 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Health promotion -- Malta 0502 economics and business medicine media_common.cataloged_instance Sports -- Malta 050207 economics European union education Recreation media_common education.field_of_study Government 05 social sciences 030229 sport sciences Investment (macroeconomics) medicine.disease General Business Management and Accounting Obesity language.human_language Maltese language Demographic economics General Economics Econometrics and Finance human activities |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | Currently, there have been various concerns relating to the amount of sports and physical exercise practiced by people in the European Union. Evidence collected by WHO and Eurostate show Malta as having the highest rates of obesity in the European Union. These results are worrying when one considers the consequences of such a condition, ranging from cardiovascular diseases such as angina, stroke and heart attacks to cancer. In this study, we use the economic, neo-classical and heterodox theories to explore sports participation, specifically of Maltese people in handball, badminton and wrestling. We targeted the whole population (n = 565) of registered and active sports participants within the three sport activities during the competitive season 2015-2016. We considered demographic characteristics, economic factors including education, employment and recreational activities, lifestyle factors as well as psychological and sociological factors. Our findings show dependency between gender and sports, the ratio of male to female participating in wrestling is significantly different from that of handball and badminton, dependency between age and sports and wrestling attracts a more mature participant. Given that income is not an issue effecting sports participation, there is a need to be more targeted public policies aimed at encouraging the uptake of sports within Malta as well as an investment by Government to promote sports participation. peer-reviewed |
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