Overview
- Examines the relationship between sport and psychophysical well-being across countries
- Discusses how sport entertainment creates a perception of healthy bodies, activity and quality of life
- Measures the impact of sport and activity on health and well-being through the life course
Part of the book series: Social Indicators Research Series (SINS, volume 84)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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General Themes
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Italian Cases
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Front Matter
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International Perspective
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Front Matter
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Physical Activity and Quality of Life
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Keywords
- physical wellbeing
- physical activity
- sport participation
- history of research on sport participation
- football and coronavirus
- Atalanta football club
- demand for sport functionality
- promoting sport for health in Italy
- sport tourism
- disability and high-level sport
- physical education in higher education
- health and fitness in digital networks
- age and physical activity
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Paolo Corvo is Associate Professor at the University of Gastronomic Sciences, where he teaches travel cultures and social change at the undergraduate level. He deals with issues related to food and consumption, sustainable food and wine tourism, indicators of quality of life, wellbeing and happiness. He has carried out research and training activities for public and private corporations on elements related to quality of life, tourism and regional socio-economic development, and processes of globalization and civil society. He has published numerous essays and articles in English. He is a member of Happiness Study Group of British Sociological Association, and Aiquav, the Italian association for quality of life studies. He is a member of RN 05, Sociology of Consumption, of the European Sociological Association.
Fabio Massimo Lo Verde is a member of Department of Economics, Business and Statistics at the University of Palermo and Full Professor of Sociology and Sociology of Consumption. From 2005 to 2010 he was head of the Social Science Department at the University of Palermo, and from 2005 to 2011 he was coordinator of the PhD course in Sociology of Rural Development. His main research areas are social change, consumption behaviour and lifestyle change in Italy and other European countries, leisure research, migration studies. He is a member of the Board of Research Committee 13, Sociology of Leisure, of the International Sociological Association and member of the RN 05 Sociology of Consumption, and RN21, Quantitative Method of the European Sociological Association.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sport and Quality of Life
Book Subtitle: Practices, Habits and Lifestyles
Editors: Paolo Corvo, Fabio Massimo Lo Verde
Series Title: Social Indicators Research Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-93092-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93091-2Published: 20 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-93094-3Published: 20 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-93092-9Published: 19 April 2022
Series ISSN: 1387-6570
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0099
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 253
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 22 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology of Sport and Leisure, Sport Science , Quality of Life Research, Employee Health and Wellbeing, Sport Psychology, Sports Economics