Application of the Social Impact of Sport Scale in Chinese Society

Sports participation benefits individual health and happiness, helps nations and societies create and cultivate social capital, and fosters the establishment of collective identities. Researchers have established the Social Impact of Sport Scale (SISS) to test the social value of sports participation in Western societies. The scale contains 5 constructs: social capital, collective identities, health literacy, well-being, and human capital. However, Chinese culture is very different from Western culture. No research has indicated whether the SISS is suitable in the Chinese context or examined the relationship between sports participation and its social value in Chinese society. Therefore, this study aimed to examine the suitability of the SISS for Chinese societies. The sample included 1,079 participants recruited from Taipei, Hong Kong, Beijing, and Singapore. The results of a confirmatory factor analysis indicated that the Chinese version of the SISS has a stable factor structure and adequate reliability and that the SISS could be applied to Chinese society after the translation performed in this study. This study can serve as the basis for future cross-national research.

關鍵字

well-being ； social capital ； human capital ； collective identities ； health literacy

並列摘要

運動參與不僅對個人之身體健康、幸福感有正向的幫助，對整體國家社會之社會資本創造、人力資本培育以及集體認同建立等皆有顯著的效益。然而，華人文化與西方文化有很大的不同，而目前沒有研究指出運動社會影響量表是否適合於華人社會背景，亦沒有研究檢驗運動參與在華人社會價值之間的關係。本研究旨在驗證運動參與在華人社會中的運動社會影響量表之適用性，包含社會資本、集體認同，健康素養、幸福感和人力資本等構面。本研究基於跨國研究之基礎，從臺北、香港、北京及新加坡招募1,079位參與者為樣本，經由驗證性因素分析的結果發現，運動社會影響量表的中文版本具有穩定的因素結構和足夠的可靠性，且在本研究驗證後，可以應用於華人社會。期盼本研究驗證之運動社會影響量表，能做為未來衡量運動參與在華人文化的社會影響，除了補足學理缺口，亦可以作為未來跨國研究之基礎。

並列關鍵字

幸福感；社會資本；人力資本；集體認同；健康素養

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Application of the Social Impact of Sport Scale in Chinese Society

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