Self-perceived health among sports participants and non-sports participants

K. L. Lamb, K. Roberts and D. A. Brodie

Social Science & Medicine, 1990, vol. 31, issue 9, 963-969

Abstract: This paper examines and compares the self-perceived health (SPH) of a sample of sports participants (n=1385) and a matched sample of non-participants (n=292). Ratings of health were generally found to be favourable among both samples, but a non-parametric analysis of their distributions revealed that the SPH of sports participants was significantly (P

Keywords: self-perceived; health; health; indicators; sports; participation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1990
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