The Lifestyles of New Endurance Sports Participants: Focusing on Triathlon Participants

The purposes of this study are (1) to develop a new lifestyle scale and validate its structure and (2) to discuss the characteristics of NES participants according to their lifestyles. The authors have modified Harada and Kikuchi's (1990) lifestyle scale by adding and deleting items and have conducted a questionnaire survey on triathlon participants (who served as representatives of NES participants). The new lifestyle scale consists of eight factors. Analysis results suggested the inclusion of a pro-environmental behavior factor in the lifestyle scale. Furthermore, the authors discuss the characteristics of NES participants compared with those of previously studied populations. The results indicated that the values of synthesis variables assigned to the health maintenance, achievement, and sport factors were high among the sampled triathlon participants. Thus, these high values showed the possibility of being characteristic of NES participants in general. Further, their high values for the pro-environmental behavior factor clarified that the NES participants were environmentally conscious, and their environmental orientation was verified.

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Lifestyle ； endurance sports ； characteristics of sports participants

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