• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.3
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• pp.363-372
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to explore the effects of sportsclub on social integration through the sportsclub participation and social integration index. To achieve this goal, 26 countries among OECD members were selected. Life satisfaction, mutual trust, social isolation, happiness index, social conflict index were selected for correlation analysis. Main findings were as follows. First. Norway, Denmark, Germany, Sweden had higher sportsclub participation, on the contrary, Korea, Poland, Hungary, Greece, USA had lower sportsclub participation. Second, sportsclub participation had significant correlation with life satisfaction, mutual trust, social isolation, happiness index, and social conflict index. Specifically, sportsclub participation had positive relationship with life satisfaction, mutual trust, happiness index and negative relationship with social isolation, social conflict index.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.4
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• pp.457-467
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• 2012

The purpose of the study was to explore the general characteristics of sports for all through the patterns of sports for all policy and analysis of causal relation of the determinants. To achieve this goal, 26 countries among OECD 30 members which provide useful data sources were selected. The data were analyzed by Qualitative Comparative Analysis(QCA) with cluster analysis. GDP, leisure time, social expenditure, Gini's coefficient, poverty rate and tax burden ratio were used as casual variables for Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The findings of this study were as follows. First, three patterns were examined and Korea was classified into the pattern which has low sports for all participation and sportsclub participation. Second, as a result of Qualitative Comparative Analysis for analyzing the determinants of sports for all patterns, the pattern in which includes Korea showed that GDP, leisure time, social expenditure, tax burden ratio had negative relationship and Gini's coefficient, poverty rate had positive relationship.