Open AccessDoes Sports Club Participation Contribute to Health-Related Quality of Life?
Author(s) -
Rochelle Eime,
Jack Harvey,
Wendy J. Brown,
Warren Payne
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
medicine and science in sports and exercise
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-0315
pISSN - 0195-9131
DOI - 10.1249/mss.0b013e3181c3adaa
Subject(s) - club , quality of life (healthcare) , life satisfaction , recreation , marital status , psychology , mental health , gerontology , cross sectional study , confounding , normative , environmental health , medicine , social psychology , psychiatry , population , philosophy , epistemology , pathology , political science , law , psychotherapist , anatomy
Given the social nature of participation in sport, we hypothesized that club sports participants would have greater well-being and quality of life than participants in other forms of physical activity (PA).