RT Journal Article
T1 Cross-Sectional Associations between Playing Sports or Electronic Games in Leisure Time and Life Satisfaction in 12-Year-Old Children from the European Union
A1 Gómez Baya, Diego
A1 Sarmento, Hugo
A1 Nicoletti, Javier Augusto
A1 García Moro, Francisco José
AB Leisure time activities in childhood may have a crucial role in the development of subjectivewell-being. Nevertheless, more research is needed with cross-national samples concerning thedifferential effects of lifestyles on life satisfaction. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to analyzethe associations between the frequency of playing sports/exercise or playing electronic games onlife satisfaction in a sample of 12-year-old children from nine countries from the European Union.The data used in this publication come from the third wave of the Children’s Worlds project, aninternational survey of children’s lives and well-being whose administration started in 2017. Thesample was composed of 10,626 children (50.9% boys) from Estonia, Belgium, Croatia, Hungary,Italy, Malta, Poland, Romania, and Spain. They completed the Student Life Satisfaction Scale andanswered two questions to assess the frequency of playing sport or exercise, and the frequency ofplaying electronic games. The results indicated notable scores in life satisfaction in all participatingcountries. The results showed some differences between boys and girls, and among the countries, inthe frequency of sport practice and electronic games in the leisure time, as well as in the overall levelof life satisfaction. The results also underlined that sport practice had a greater positive effect on lifesatisfaction than the use of electronic games. Thus, this study highlights the need to design programsto promote sport practice in leisure time for 12-year-old children in Europe, in order to protect theirsubjective well-being
PB MDPI
SN 2254-9625 (electrónico)
YR 2022
FD 2022-08
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21162
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/21162
LA eng
NO Gomez-Baya, D., Sarmento, H., Nicoletti, J. A., & Garcia-Moro, F. J. (2022). Cross-Sectional Associations between Playing Sports or Electronic Games in Leisure Time and Life Satisfaction in 12-Year-Old Children from the European Union. In European Journal of Investigation in Health, Psychology and Education (Vol. 12, Issue 8, pp. 1050–1066). MDPI AG. https://doi.org/10.3390/ejihpe12080075
NO This research received no external funding. The original project that provided the data wassupported by the Jacobs Foundation. : The data used in this publication come from the third wave of the Children’sWorlds project, an international survey of children’s lives and well-being (www.isciweb.org, accessedon 1 August 2022). The views expressed here are those of the authors. They are not necessarily thoseof ISCWeB
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026