Kinoshita, Keita

The current study examined the mediating role of sport-specific PERMA in the relationship between physical activity/passive sport consumption and global well-being/loneliness. We collected data to establish two-wave panel data for a sample of 481 participants across Japan. Structural equation modeling was performed to examine the hypothesis model. The results showed that sport-specific eudaimonic well-being significantly mediated the hypothesized relationships between PA/passive sport consumption and all dependent variables, including life satisfaction, psychological well-being, and loneliness. The results indicate that eudaimonic well-being in sport plays a key role in increasing global well-being and decreasing loneliness. These findings can help authorities optimize local resources as promoting and maintaining individual well-being is essential for society. The results contribute to understanding the role of sport-specific PERMA in global well-being and loneliness in the body of literature.

This study applies a transformative sport service research approach to examine student-athletes’ wellness within a collegiate sport setting. Sixteen semi-structured interviews were completed during the COVID-19 pandemic and the stop of play in Canada (early 2021). Findings denoted wellness was influenced by this time period as well as organizational factors which are within the purview of existing management practices. The study details the service environment to understand physical and mental well-being while taking into consideration the general and organizational environments which influence the student-athletes. Findings demonstrate that eudaimonic-related experiences (e.g., learning, development, relationship) are related to student-athletes' mental well-being. This research underpins the role of education, policies, and communication, which draws several implications for the service environment in a collegiate sport setting and the key stakeholders involved in producing an environment to enhance student-athletes’ experience. The paper elaborates on the importance of the service environment and provides evidence of what student-athletes suggest management can change and focus their efforts on towards creating a transformative service environment. Theoretical implications for the transformative service research are put forward, including the co-creative aspects to determine programming which could contribute towards student-athletes wellness. Broader suggestions for change within the sport system and future research are also advanced.

The present study investigated 1) the changes in positive and negative event impacts and residents’ eudaimonic well-being before and after Tokyo 2020 and 2) how the social impacts are related to eudaimonic well-being. Three-wave panel data were collected from 1692 Japanese residents before and after the event. We performed linear mixed modeling (LMM) and a random-intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) to investigate the within-person fluctuations in the event impacts and eudaimonic well-being and the within-person relationships. The LMMs showed that only negative event impacts significantly changed after the event. The RI-CLPM revealed that positive event impacts before the event were significantly related to eudaimonic well-being right after the event, and eudaimonic well-being right after the event was significantly associated with positive event impacts two months after the event. The findings indicate that the influence of positive event impacts on residents’ eudaimonic well-being might be only temporal, but also eudaimonic well-being right after the event may have a significant role in positive evaluations of the event two months later. The results illustrated that the government and sport organizations need to pay more attention to contemplate the strategies to increase the eudaimonic well-being of residents through the power of sport to make “sport as an enabler of sustainable development”.