Friends in sports. Social networks in leisure, school and social media.

Autor/inn/en	Bergesen Dalen, Håvard; Seippel, Ørnulf
Titel	Friends in sports. Social networks in leisure, school and social media. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Freunde im Sport. Soziale Netzwerke in Freizeit, Schule und sozialen Medien.
Quelle	In: International journal of environmental research and public health, 18 (2021) 12, [15 S.] PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1660-4601; 1661-7827
DOI	10.3390/ijerph18126197
Schlagwörter	Empirische Untersuchung; Gemeinschaft; Freundschaft; Psychische Gesundheit; Soziale Beziehung; Jugend; Frau; Schule; Soziales Verhalten; Soziale Software; Soziales Netzwerk; Bewegungsaktivität; Sportsoziologie; Sportverein; Jugendlicher; Sportler; Norwegen
Abstract	Young athletes value their social relations in sports, and these social relations can have consequences when it comes to joining, continuing, and quitting sports. Yet the important question of how social relations in sports develop has not yet been adequately answered. Hence, we investigated how athletes' social relations in sports depend on social relations outside of sports: in leisure, school, and social media. A total of 387 athletes (aged 16-19) from 30 Norwegian sports groups completed a survey on electronic tablets. We asked how social relations in leisure, school, and social media-through the social mechanisms of contact, homophily, and contagion-influenced social relations in sports. We also controlled for the effect of exercise frequency and duration (years) of contact in sports. Exponential random graph modelling (ERGM) analyses showed that first and foremost, relations from social media and leisure, but also school networks and exercise frequency, influence sports networks. This study shows that social relations in sports are diverse and depend on social relations outside sports. We discuss how this has 'counterintuitive' consequences for sports participation, particularly the importance of supporting athletes' social relations outside of sports for the strengthening of social relations within sports when addressing challenges concerning recruitment, continuation, and dropout from sports. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2024/1