The Effect of Playing Gateball Sports on Older Chinese People’s Wellbeing in the Context of Active Aging—Based Mediation of Social Capital
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Literature Review and Research Hypothesis
2.1. Sports Participation and Well-Being of Elderly People
2.2. Identification of the Concept of Social Capital and How It Is Measured
2.3. The Role of Social Capital in Enhancing the Well-Being of Elderly People
2.4. The Role of Sports Participation in Enhancing the Social Capital of Elderly People
3. Research Methodology
3.1. Study Area and Data Sources
3.2. Design of the Questionnaire
3.3. Common Method Deviations
3.4. Model Suitability
4. Research Results and Analysis
4.1. Correlation Analysis
4.2. Hypothesis Testing of Direct and Mediating Effects
4.2.1. Tests of the Direct Role
4.2.2. Testing the Role of Mediation
5. Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Fuzzy Sets
5.1. Selection and Calibration of Variables
5.2. Analysis of the Results of fsQCA
5.2.1. Necessity Condition Analysis
5.2.2. Conditional Configuration Analysis
5.2.3. Robustness Tests
6. Discussion
6.1. Analysis of the Positive Effect of Sports Participation on the Well-Being of Elderly People
6.2. Analysis of the Intermediary Role of Social Capital
6.3. Pathway Interpretation of Positive Well-Being
7. Study Conclusions and Limitations
7.1. Conclusions
- Gateball sport participation can improve elderly people’s well-being.
- Gateball sport participation can improve elderly people’s social capital (social trust, social participation, and social interaction).
- Social capital can enhance the well-being of older gateball participants.
- Social capital can partially mediate the effect of gateball sport participation on elderly people’s well-being.
7.2. Limitations
7.3. Recommendations
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Indicators | Options | Percentage/% |
---|---|---|
Gender | Men | 46.3 |
Women | 53.7 | |
Age | “60≤” and “<65” | 53.7 |
“65≤” and “<70” | 39.4 | |
“≥70” | 6.9 | |
Education level | Primary school and below | 63.7 |
Junior High School | 21.9 | |
High School | 10.7 | |
University and above | 3.7 | |
Working conditions | Employment | 35.9 |
Retirement | 63.8 | |
Temporarily unemployed | 0.3 | |
Marital status | Married | 84.6 |
Divorce | 8.1 | |
Single | 5.7 | |
Bereaved spouse | 1.6 | |
Weekly gateball participation frequency (Gateball exercise) | “≤2” | 31.6 |
“3≤” and “≤4” | 44.9 | |
“5≤” and “≤6” | 17.1 | |
“=7” | 6.4 |
Latent Variables | Observation Variables | Standard Load | Cronbachα | CR | AVE |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sports participation | How hard do you practice gateball? | 0.845 *** | 0.874 | 0.9431 | 0.7353 |
What time of day will you be playing gateball? | 0.921 *** | ||||
Do you often take part in gateball events? | 0.839 *** | ||||
Do you often watch gateball events? | 0.789 *** | ||||
How much do you spend annually on gateball activities? | 0.796 *** | ||||
How well do you keep up with news on gateball events? | 0.943 *** | ||||
Social Trust | Do you believe the majority of people are trustworthy? | 0.736 *** | 0.728 | 0.8016 | 0.5742 |
Do you feel at home in your community? | 0.743 *** | ||||
Do you feel secure crossing the street at night? | 0.793 *** | ||||
Social participation | Do you belong to any clubs or local organisations? | 0.775 *** | 0.743 | 0.7983 | 0.5694 |
Have you participated in any neighborhood or local community events lately? | 0.785 *** | ||||
Would you be interested in helping a local nonprofit organisation? | 0.701 *** | ||||
Social interaction | When you shop locally, do you run across friends or familiar faces? | 0.703 *** | 0.713 | 0.7807 | 0.5432 |
Do your buddies provide a hand when you’re in need? | 0.778 *** | ||||
Whom did you chat with the most yesterday? | 0.728 *** | ||||
Happiness | Is your life joyful, satisfying, and enjoyable? (in the past month) | 0.842 *** | 0.795 | 0.861 | 0.6738 |
How much do you value your health? (in the past month) | 0.821 *** | ||||
How do you feel about your spirit, vitality, and vigour? (in the past month) | 0.799 *** |
Adaptation Indicators | Recommended Value | Fitted Values |
---|---|---|
χ2 | The smaller the better | 171.322 |
χ2/DF | <3.0 | 1.839 |
RMSEA | <0.08 | 0.027 |
NFI | >0.9 | 0.951 |
IFI | >0.9 | 0.988 |
CFI | >0.9 | 0.971 |
GFI | >0.9 | 0.921 |
AGFI | >0.8 | 0.929 |
TLI | >0.9 | 0.971 |
PNFI | >0.5 | 0.741 |
PCFI | >0.5 | 0.783 |
Variables | Sports Participation | Social Trust | Social Participation | Social Interaction | Happiness | M (SD) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sports participation | 1 | 0.492 *** | 0.311 *** | 0.254 *** | 0.198 *** | 5.27 (0.74) |
Social Trust | 1 | 0.278 *** | 0.221 ** | 0.208 *** | 4.27 (1.07) | |
Social participation | 1 | 0.237 *** | 0.307 *** | 3.89 (0.71) | ||
Social interaction | 1 | 0.201 ** | 3.72 (0.69) | |||
Happiness | 1 | 9.91 (1.27) |
Path Relationships | Standardized Factor Loadings | CR Value | p | Test Results |
---|---|---|---|---|
Sports participation→social trust | 0.201 | 3.027 | ** | Support |
Sports participation→Social participation | 0.196 | 3.168 | ** | Support |
Sports participation→Social interaction | 0.179 | 3.011 | ** | Support |
Sports participation→happiness | 0.167 | 5.294 | *** | Support |
Social trust→happiness | 0.221 | 4.183 | *** | Support |
Social participation→happiness | 0.161 | 3.166 | ** | Support |
Social interaction→happiness | 0.512 | 11.539 | *** | Support |
Paths | Effect Value | Boot SE | p | Bias-Corrected 95% CI | Percentile 95% CI | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Lower Limit | Upper Limit | Lower Limit | Upper Limit | ||||
Overall effect | 0.324 | 0.045 | *** | 0.249 | 0.422 | 0.251 | 0.423 |
Direct effects | 0.169 | 0.034 | *** | 0.101 | 0.221 | 0.099 | 0.235 |
Indirect effects | 0.155 | 0.027 | *** | 0.094 | 0.224 | 0.098 | 0.225 |
Sports participation→Social trust→Happiness | 0.029 | 0.012 | ** | 0.008 | 0.061 | 0.006 | 0.059 |
Sports participation→Social participation→Happiness | 0.027 | 0.009 | ** | 0.008 | 0.053 | 0.005 | 0.049 |
Sports participation→Social interaction→Happiness | 0.028 | 0.011 | ** | 0.013 | 0.059 | 0.011 | 0.053 |
Antecedent Variables | Consistency | Coverage |
---|---|---|
Age | 0.744 | 0.781 |
~Age | 0.522 | 0.671 |
Sports participation | 0.823 | 0.819 |
~Sports participation | 0.461 | 0.627 |
Social trust | 0.816 | 0.825 |
~Social trust | 0.478 | 0.639 |
Social participation | 0.814 | 0.818 |
~Social participation | 0.489 | 0.648 |
Social interaction | 0.834 | 0.832 |
~Social interaction | 0.473 | 0.638 |
Conditions | Configuration | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A1 | A2 | B1 | B2 | C1 | D1 | D2 | |
Age | ● | ● | ○ | ○ | |||
Sports participation | ● | ● | • | ● | • | • | |
Social trust | • | • | • | • | ● | ● | |
Social participation | • | • | ● | ● | • | ||
Social interaction | • | • | • | ● | ● | ||
Consistency | 0.939 | 0.911 | 0.863 | 0.917 | 0.953 | 0.961 | 0.883 |
Original coverage | 0.337 | 0.392 | 0.253 | 0.375 | 0.509 | 0.412 | 0.454 |
Unique coverage | 0.019 | 0.042 | 0.027 | 0.045 | 0.041 | 0.051 | 0.062 |
Total consistency | 0.917 | ||||||
Total coverage | 0.893 |
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Li, X.; Tang, N.; Yu, R.; Jiang, H.; Xie, H. The Effect of Playing Gateball Sports on Older Chinese People’s Wellbeing in the Context of Active Aging—Based Mediation of Social Capital. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19, 12254. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912254
Li X, Tang N, Yu R, Jiang H, Xie H. The Effect of Playing Gateball Sports on Older Chinese People’s Wellbeing in the Context of Active Aging—Based Mediation of Social Capital. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 2022; 19(19):12254. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912254
Chicago/Turabian StyleLi, Xinze, Ningxiao Tang, Ronghui Yu, Hongyu Jiang, and Hongwei Xie. 2022. "The Effect of Playing Gateball Sports on Older Chinese People’s Wellbeing in the Context of Active Aging—Based Mediation of Social Capital" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 19, no. 19: 12254. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph191912254