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Making Well-being an Experiential Possibility: The Role of Sport.

Mayoh, J. and Jones, I., 2014. Making Well-being an Experiential Possibility: The Role of Sport. Qualitative Research in Sport, Exercise and Health, 7 (2), 235-252.

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DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2014.893901

Abstract

Whilst the relationship between active participation in sport and well-being has been widely acknowledged, less attention has been paid to actually understand this relationship from the perspective of the individual. Our paper draws upon phenomenological philosophy and the existential life-world view of well-being, in order to explore how the experience of sport can help facilitate possibilities for multiple kinds and levels of well-being. In doing so, our paper highlights the multiplicity of the dimensions of well-being, and offers examples of the different paths to well-being provided by sport, thus providing ways of describing well-being experiences within a sports context that are more complex than those offered by more traditional approaches to study in this area. Within this conceptual analysis we adopt a humanistic approach that considers the multiple ways well-being can be experienced through sport as a sense of dwelling, mobility or dwelling-mobility within the life-world dimensions of temporarily, spatiality, mood, embodiment, inter-subjectivity and identity.

Item Type:Article
ISSN:2159-676X
Uncontrolled Keywords:Sport ; Well-being ; Phenomenology ; Life-world ; Dwelling–mobility
Group:Bournemouth University Business School
ID Code:22956
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:08 Dec 2015 12:41
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:54

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