Factors believed to be motivations responsible for sport fandom include eustress, self-esteem, escape, entertainment, economic, aesthetic, group affiliation, and family needs. However, these factors have been untested empirically, and a valid and reliable measure of sport fan motivation has been unavailable to researchers. The current two studies were an attempt to develop such a measure.…
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Journal of Sport and Social Issues is a peer-reviewed journal published by SAGE, covering Sports, Gender, and Society, Sport and Mega-Event Impacts, Sports Analytics and Performance.
| Publisher | SAGE |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Harvard) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, A., Jones, B. and Lee, C. (2023) 'A representative article title', Journal of Sport and Social Issues, 12(3), pp. 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Sports, Gender, and Society Sport and Mega-Event Impacts Sports Analytics and Performance American Sports and Literature Physical Education and Pedagogy |
| ISSN | 0193-7235 |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.37 |
| h-index | 89 |
| i10-index | 644 |
| Total citations | 35,393 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Journal website | jss.sagepub.com |
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World football (or soccer) has undergone an intensive hypercommodification over the past decade or so. This article examines the impact of this process on forms of spectator identification with top professional football clubs. Drawing upon previous analyses by Taylor and Critcher (on football) and the theories of Bryan Turner (on body culture), the article advances…
Previous research has demonstrated that people are capable of strategic self-presentation; they decrease the distance between themselves and successful groups with which they have only the most trivial of associations, and strive to increase the distance between themselves and groups viewed negatively as a result of some perceived failure. These two processes, termed basking-in- reflected-glory…
There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth development because sport’s assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those who partake in it. Promoted and perpetuated by sport evangelists and kindred spirits, this belief inspires the strategy of using sports to create among young people the attributes needed to…
As a result of increased geographic mobility, industrialization, and the like, traditional social and community ties have declined. Conversely, sports spectatorship has continued to flourish. We argue that strong identification with a specific sports team provides a buffer from feelings of depression and alienation, and at the same time, fosters feelings of belongingness and self…