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The Study of Dependence on Sportswear and the Effects of Wearing Sportswear

스포츠웨어에 대한 의존성과 착용효과에 관한 연구

  • Park, Soozin (Dept. of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design, Seoul National University) ;
  • Ahn, Minyoung (Dept. of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design, Seoul National University) ;
  • Lee, Yuri (Dept. of Textiles, Merchandising, and Fashion Design, Seoul National University/Research Institute of Human Ecology, Seoul National University)
  • 박수진 (서울대학교 의류학과) ;
  • 안민영 (서울대학교 의류학과) ;
  • 이유리 (서울대학교 의류학과/서울대학교 생활과학연구소)
  • Received : 2014.08.18
  • Accepted : 2014.10.24
  • Published : 2015.02.28

Abstract

When enjoying sports activities with friends or others, sportswear has symbolic meanings to express and expect self-concept. Sports players sometimes have trouble when they feel embarrassed by their low skills or care about other people too much. Therefore, researchers tried to find out which feature of sports players affects dependence on brand sportswear along with the effect of wearing conspicuous sportswear on wearer when sports players have a conflict based on Solomon's symbolic interactionism. We proposed that role knowledge and attention to social comparison information (ATSCI) influenced people to depend on and use brand sportswear that influences a reflexive evaluation. Finally, we suggested that a changed self-concept would exert influence commitment to sports. A quantitative study was conducted employing an online survey of 121 people by convenient sampling. In this process, Google Docs was to create the online survey and to collect responses by participants. In data processing, via SPSS 21.0 version for Windows, exploratory factor analysis, Cronbach's ${\alpha}$, ANOVA, t-test, discriminant and regression analysis were conducted to study the relationship between variables. The finding provided evidence that low role knowledge and high ATSCI create high dependence on brand sportswear and influence people to buy sportswear. When people bought and wore a brand sportswear, they evaluated themselves as professional sports players who were more committed to sports. This study confirmed that brand sportswear was useful for sport players to change self-evaluation and enjoy sports.

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