From sport event quality to quality of life: The role of satisfaction and purchase happiness

ND Theodorakis, K Kaplanidou… - Journal of Convention …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Sport events constitute attractive platforms for providing unique experiences which increase,
among others, participants' satisfaction and purchase happiness. The current research …

A distance-running event and life satisfaction: The mediating roles of involvement

M Sato, JS Jordan, DC Funk - Sport Management Review, 2016 - Elsevier
The increasing popularity of mass participant sport events has provided sport event
managers and scholars with an opportunity to contribute to a broader conversation on ways …

Constraint negotiation in serious leisure: A study of amateur triathletes

M Kennelly, B Moyle, M Lamont - Journal of Leisure Research, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores strategies employed by amateur triathletes engaged in serious leisure
to negotiate leisure constraints. In-depth interviews were conducted with 21 Australian …

Distance running events and life satisfaction: A longitudinal study

M Sato, JS Jordan, DC Funk - Journal of Sport …, 2015 - journals.humankinetics.com
The current study examines whether a distance running event has the capacity to promote
participants' life satisfaction. The construct of psychological involvement was used to …

What motivates successful marathon runners? The role of sex, age, education, and training experience in Polish runners

Z Waśkiewicz, PT Nikolaidis, D Gerasimuk… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The aim of this study was to compare the motivations of successful marathon finishers (n=
1,243) and inexperienced runners (control group, n= 296). A total of 1,537 runners with 380 …

Exploring the impact of social networking sites on running involvement, running behavior, and social life satisfaction

JE Mahan III, WJ Seo, JS Jordan, D Funk - Sport Management Review, 2015 - Elsevier
Social networking sites (SNS) are often shown to be influential in developing activity
engagement as well as psychological well-being, but empirical evidence is scarce as to their …

The evolution of psychological involvement and customer loyalty: a longitudinal analysis of fitness facility members

M Yoshida, M Sato, AD Pizzo… - Sport Management …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Psychological involvement is a leading concept within sport management used to
understand consumers' behavior and their connection with a sport entity. Despite the …

[PDF][PDF] Differentiating mass participant sport event consumers: Traditional versus non-traditional events

RJ Buning, M Walker - Sport Marketing Quarterly, 2016 - researchgate.net
Mass participant sport events (MPSEs) have experienced substantial growth both in the
amount and types of events offered. The endurance event industry has recently shifted …

The relationships between four concepts (involvement, commitment, loyalty, and habit) and consistency in behavior across leisure and tourism

S Chang, HJ Gibson - Tourism Management Perspectives, 2015 - Elsevier
Lack of clarity in conceptualizing involvement, commitment, habit, and loyalty has led to
confusion in their applications in the study of leisure and tourism. This paper traces their …

Connecting customer knowledge management and intention to use sport services through psychological involvement, commitment, and customer perceived value

M Behnam, M Sato, BJ Baker… - Journal of Sport …, 2020 - journals.humankinetics.com
Despite the increasing importance of customer knowledge management (CKM) as a
strategic resource for sport service organizations, little sport management research has …