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Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing

Brian S. Gordon et al.

Journal of Sport Management2025https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2024-0189article
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Abstract

Sport spectatorship has been viewed as a relatively passive leisure activity, but it has the potential to provide a multitude of well-being benefits to individuals. To bridge the gap between sport spectatorship and human flourishing, defined as a state of positive functioning in both individual and social life, the authors focused on the role of context-specific fan well-being and conducted a 2-year predictive study using three-wave panel data ( n = 417) in professional baseball. The results showed the effects of team identification and fan engagement behavior at Time 1 on future flourishing at Time 3 was fully mediated by context-specific fan well-being at Time 2. Moreover, the effect of team identification ( t 1 ) on flourishing ( t 3 ) was sequentially mediated first through fan engagement behavior ( t 1 ) and then through fan well-being ( t 2 ). The findings reinforce the importance of sport-specific fan well-being for leading fans to flourish in daily life.

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@article{brian2025,
  title        = {{Sport Fans and Flourishing: Examining the Mediating Role of Sport Fan Well-Being in Predicting Flourishing}},
  author       = {Brian S. Gordon et al.},
  journal      = {Journal of Sport Management},
  year         = {2025},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1123/jsm.2024-0189},
}

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