The Relationship between Korean Adolescents’ Sports Participation, Internal Health Locus of Control, and Wellness during COVID-19

Dae-Jung Lee, Wi-Young So and Seung-Man Lee
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Dae-Jung Lee: Department of Physical Education, Jeonbuk National University, Jeollabuk-do 54896, Korea
Wi-Young So: Sports Medicine Major, College of Humanities and Arts, Korea National University of Transportation, Chungju-si 27469, Korea
Seung-Man Lee: Department of Physical Education, College of Education, Korea University, Seoul 02841, Korea

IJERPH, 2021, vol. 18, issue 6, 1-13

Abstract: This study was aimed at providing practical information to improve Korean adolescents’ wellness by empirically identifying its correlation with sports participation and having an internal health locus of control (IHLC) during the COVID-19 pandemic. This study comprised both a pilot test and a main study. We recruited 844 Korean adolescents as subjects in January 2021 to participate in an online self-reported survey. The reliability and validity of the scales used (sports participation, IHLC, and wellness) were verified through a pilot test. In the main study, we verified the differences between all variables according to adolescents’ demographic characteristics and the structural relationship of sports participation, IHLC, and wellness. Sports participation had a positive effect on IHLC ( p < 0.001) and wellness ( p < 0.001). Additionally, IHLC had a positive effect on wellness ( p < 0.001). In juvenile educational institutions, there is a need to develop strategies to increase wellness, sports participation, and IHLC among adolescent students, which can improve their wellness in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Keywords: adolescent; internal health locus of control; sports participation; structural equation modeling; wellness (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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