Self-health promotion: A study on the mode of acquiring sports health knowledge and skills among older adults members of sports communities

TL;DR

This study explores how older adults in sports communities learn about sports health, finding that a positive community culture boosts their motivation and effectiveness in acquiring health knowledge.

Contribution

The study identifies a mediating pathway linking community culture to health knowledge acquisition among older adults.

Findings

Sports community culture significantly influences the pursuit of sports health knowledge (β = 0.69, P<0.001).

Motivation to enhance health knowledge is strongly influenced by the pursuit of such knowledge (β = 0.47, P<0.001).

Motivation fully mediates the relationship between community culture and knowledge acquisition behavior.

Abstract

The research aims to construct a mode and the pathway relationships of acquiring sports health knowledge and skills among members of older adults sports communities.

The research was primarily conducted through random sampling, purposive sampling, and questionnaire surveys. A sample of 457 older adults from Luoyang City was selected as the research subjects. Exploratory analysis and Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) were conducted by employing SPSS 26.0 and Amos 26.0 software(Exploratory analysis and structural equation analysis).

The study indicates that the influence of older adults sports community culture on the pursuit of sports health knowledge and skills is statistically significant (β = 0.69, P<0.001); the influence of sports community culture on the motivation to enhance sports health knowledge and skills is statistically significant (β = 0.32, P<0.001); the influence of the pursuit of sports health knowledge and skills on the motivation to enhance these knowledge and skills is statistically significant (β = 0.47, P<0.001); the influence of the motivation to enhance sports health knowledge and skills on the behavior of acquiring these knowledge and skills is statistically significant (β = 0.60, P<0.001); both the pursuit of sports health knowledge and skills and the motivation to enhance these knowledge and skills serve as mediating variables.

The more harmonious and positive the sports community culture is, the stronger the sense of pursuing health and the motivation to acquire knowledge are among older adults. The stronger the health pursuit among older adults, the higher their motivation to enhance sports health knowledge and skills shows. Furthermore, the higher the motivation of older adults to enhance sports health knowledge and skills is, the more efficient their behavior in acquiring these knowledge and skills becomes. The motivation to enhance sports health knowledge and skills serves as a complete mediating variable in this process.

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