The primary purpose of this study was to develop a valid and reliable instrument to assess sport fan motivation. Also, the new measure was employed to examine the relationship between sport fan motivation and ethnic identity. One hundred sixty nine college students from two southeastern institutions participated in this study. Data were analyzed using exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, Bivariate correlation, t test, ANOVA, and descriptive statistics. The Fan Motivation Scale (FMS), developed in this study, consisted of six components with 22 items. The number of items under every component range from 5 to 2 items (quality of the game 4 items, escape 5 items, boredom avoidance 5 items, social 3 items, entertainment 3 items, and sport atmosphere 2 items). In addition, two hypotheses were tested in the current study. The first hypothesis was that ethnic identity is positively related to sport fan motivation. The second hypothesis assumed that there was a difference between African Americans and European Americans in their ethnic identity. The results revealed the FMS is a reliable measure with an overall alpha score of 0.90. Significant differences were found between participants in the total FMS and some of the subscales based on gender and ethnicity. However, the outcomes of the samples examined in this study do not support the first hypothesis. Therefore, no significant relationship was found between sport fan motivation and ethnic identity. Regarding the second hypothesis, a significant difference was found between African Americans and European Americans in their ethnic identity. / A Dissertation submitted to the Department of Sport Management, Recreation
Management and Physical Education in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
of Doctor of Philosophy. / Degree Awarded: Fall Semester, 2004. / Date of Defense: October 21, 2004. / Sport fan motivation, ethnic identity / Includes bibliographical references. / E. Newton Jackson, Jr., Professor Directing Dissertation; Akihito Kamata, Outside Committee Member; Jerome Quarterman, Committee Member; Mounir Ragheb, Committee Member.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_168065 |
| Contributors | Al-Thibiti, Yousof (authoraut), Jackson, E. Newton (professor directing dissertation), Kamata, Akihito (outside committee member), Quarterman, Jerome (committee member), Ragheb, Mounir (committee member), Department of Sport Management (degree granting department), Florida State University (degree granting institution) |
| Publisher | Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text, text |
| Format | 1 online resource, computer, application/pdf |
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