It’s up to you: The Influence of Sports Participation, Academic Performances and Demo-Behavioral Characteristics on University students’ Life Satisfaction

Positive personality-trait-like individual differences in athletes from individual- and team sports and in non-athletes

“…The first finding, that athletes score systematically higher than non-athletes on positive PTLID, which replicates previous general findings regarding positive PTLID considered as an umbrella term (Guillen & Laborde, 2014;Laborde et al, 2015). Furthermore, it confirms findings specific to the dispositional traits considered in this study, regarding perseverance (Guillen & Laborde, 2014), resilience (Guillen & Laborde, 2014), self-esteem (Bjelica & Jovanović, 2014;Eime et al, 2013;Kipp, 2016), and self-efficacy (Eime et al, 2013;Inoue et al, 2015;Laborde et al, 2015). It also extends findings on positivity, as it was not previously investigated together with sport participation.…”

“…Selfesteem refers to relatively stable feelings of overall self-worth (Rosenberg, 1965). Sport participation has been found to be associated positively with self-esteem (Bjelica & Jovanović, 2014;Eime, Young, Harvey, Charity, & Payne, 2013;Kipp, 2016). Self-efficacy refers to an individual's belief in his or her capabilities to organize and execute courses of action that are required to produce given attainments (Bandura, 1997).…”

Academic Performance and Physical Activities as Positive Factors for Life Satisfaction among University Students

“…The current study was carried out from 2015 to 2018, in 15 institutions of higher learning from Serbia which included both publicly and privately-run universities. The research sample was therefore more heterogeneous than that of the 2016 study [48] since it included a broader pool of students from which to draw. Consisting of 905 undergraduate and post-graduate students from disparate educational backgrounds, 875 research participants filled out the questionnaire.…”

“…Following the example of research from 2016 [48], students were categorized into three groups according to the number of hours spent doing physical activity on a weekly basis-insufficiently active (less than 3 h per week), active (between 3 and 10 h per week) and very active (more than 10 h per week).…”

“…The BMSLSS has been used in numerous studies, including measuring life satisfaction among public high school adolescents [50], where validation of the scale was confirmed for students [51], as well as being deemed applicable/adaptable for respondents 8-18 years of age [52]. In order to compare the results with a similar study published in 2016 [48] at the University of Belgrade, Faculty of Organizational Sciences, the same scope for the 5-point BMSLSS scale was used.…”