Department of Golf Industry, College of Physical Education, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon-dong 1, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 17104, Korea.
Department of Sports Bigtainment, Graduate School of Physical Education, Kyung Hee University, Seocheon-dong 1, Giheung-gu, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 17104, Korea.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Jul 6;17(13):4871. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17134871.
This study focused on empirically analyzing sport activity participants' perceptions of hypochondriasis caused by fear of infection and changes in continuous participatory behavior patterns. To this end, a comparative analysis was conducted with a focus on the forms of participation and age of sport activity participants. For the final comparative analysis, a 2 × 3 factorial multivariate analysis of variance was conducted after confirming the validity and reliability of data based on 229 questionnaires collected from healthy respondents who have never been infected with COVID-19. The results showed statistically significant differences between worry about illness, which is a subscale of hypochondriasis, disease phobia, thanatophobia, and intent to continue according to age. Statistically significant differences were also found when considering the type of sport for worry about illness, which is a subscale of hypochondriasis, disease phobia, symptom preoccupation, and intent to continue. Furthermore, interaction effects between the two independent variables, i.e., age and type of sport, were found for disease phobia, a subscale of hypochondriasis, and thanatophobia. In summary, age and type of sport, which are important factors for the COVID-19 infection and symptoms, were found to affect the sport activity patterns. These results proved that COVID-19 may have caused the participants to have different perceptions depending on their characteristics and change their form of continuous participation. These findings will provide useful data for predicting the perception and behavioral patterns of sports participants if diseases like COVID-19 occur in the future. They also show how to live a healthy life through exercise.
本研究旨在通过实证分析运动参与者对因担心感染而产生的疑病症和持续参与行为模式变化的感知。为此，我们对运动参与者的参与形式和年龄进行了比较分析。在对从未感染过 COVID-19 的健康受访者进行的 229 份问卷进行数据有效性和可靠性验证后，采用 2×3 析因多元方差分析进行最终的比较分析。结果表明，在年龄方面，对疾病的担忧（疑病症的一个亚量表）、疾病恐惧、死亡恐惧和继续参与的意愿存在统计学上的显著差异。在考虑运动类型时，对疾病的担忧（疑病症的一个亚量表）、疾病恐惧、症状关注和继续参与的意愿也存在统计学上的显著差异。此外，在疑病症和死亡恐惧的亚量表中，两个自变量（年龄和运动类型）之间存在交互效应。总之，与 COVID-19 感染和症状相关的重要因素，即年龄和运动类型，会影响运动活动模式。这些结果证明，COVID-19 可能会因参与者的特征而导致他们产生不同的感知，并改变他们的持续参与形式。这些发现将为预测未来 COVID-19 等疾病发生时运动参与者的感知和行为模式提供有用的数据，同时也展示了如何通过锻炼来保持健康的生活。
