Institutional effects in students' health conscious behaviour

Kovács, Klára and Kovács, Karolina Eszter and Nagy, Beáta Erika (2016) Institutional effects in students' health conscious behaviour. In: Sport and Social Sciences with Reflection on Practice. University of Physical Education, Warsawa, pp. 13-30. ISBN 9788393661077

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Abstract

The aim of present study is to measure the institutional effects of higher education on students’ sport activity. Sport is an important element of health behaviour; its positive impact can be perceived in individual, national and global level as well. However, the frequency of doing sport shows a decreased likelihood with age (Sallis, 1993). Social factors play an important role in sustaining health behaviour thus environment is an extrinsic motivating factor as well (Browning et al., 2015). That is why sporting habits can be influenced by higher educational institutes (Kovács, 2013; 2015). Doing sport and hiking with friends, participation in sport clubs and in a fan club as societal factors can affect students’ sport activity. Analyses were made by using a database of an international survey among students of higher education institutions in the cross-border area of Hungary, Romania, Ukraine and Serbia (IESA-TESSCEE II. 2014, N=1972). We investigate the effects of competitive sport and healthcare nature attitudes towards sport, institutional integration and disintegration, the sporty campus milieu together with demographical factors for the purpose of gaining sport advantage. According to our research results the disadvantaged students and students surrounded by non-sporty faculty milieu have a higher chance to gain sport advantage.

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