The effect of intramural sports participation on sense of belonging among university students

บทคัดย่อ

          The objective of this study is to explore if there exists a link between students' duration and frequency in intramural sports participation and their feeling of belonging while keeping constant the influence of gender, class standing, hometown, housing option, and the number of sports involved. The sense of belonging theory and the sense of community Index 2 (SCI-2) scale were applied. Multiple regression analysis is conducted on the samples gathered from two universities in China. It was found that a combination of duration and frequency of intramural sports participation affects the sense of belonging in universities students, and if gender, class standing, hometown, housing option, and the number of sports involved were controlled for, the set of variables (duration, frequency) is still able to predict a significant amount of the variance in the sense of belonging. The findings aid in enhancing student participation and the complete experience of students in higher education, contributing to the individual and communal progress of students.