An Economic Evaluation of Subjective Well-Being Derived from Sport Participation
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This study links up the theories of social psychology, economics and sport management to assess the impact of sport participation on subjective well-being (SWB) and use a simple statistic method to estimate the relative monetary value that sport participation derives SWB for Taiwan’s college students. By constructing proper measurements on sport participation and SWB respectively, a structural equation model (SEM) is developed to perform a confirmatory factory analysis, and the causal relationship between sport participation and SWB as well as the effect of the demographic variables on these two concepts are also discussed. Keywords—Demographics, Economic value, Sport participation, Structural equation modeling (SEM), Subjective well-being.
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