Significance and Delivery of Sport in Belize: Perceptions of Selected Experts
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-osu10376306662021-08-03T05:47:34Z Significance and Delivery of Sport in Belize: Perceptions of Selected Experts Cuellar, Clara R. sport delivery sport function sport in developing country Significant stakeholders (n = 689) of sport in Belize expressed their perceptions of (a) the criticalness of Mass, Elite and Commercial Sport; (b) the relative emphasis to be placed on these domains of sport, and (c) the organizational form best suited to deliver the services in each of the domains. The instrument consisted of items in three parts to measure the above, and the fourth part to assess the demographic information on the respondents. Principal component analyses yielded one factor in both Mass Sport and Elite Sport, and two factors under Commercial Sport (i.e., Business Sport and Entertainment Sport). Item-to total correlations showed that all items except three were correlated higher with their own totals than with irrelevant totals. The alpha coefficients were higher than .68. The differences among subgroups defined by (a) gender, (b) employer status (Four levels), (c) involvement in sport (two levels), and city status (two levels) were assessed through multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) followed by univariate ANOVA and Scheffe’s post hoc analysis. Although the subgroup differences were statistically significant, their practical significance was rather limited and thus the results were analyzed on the total sample through t-test procedures. Overall the respondents perceived Mass and Elite Sport to be more critical than Business and Entertainment Sport. There were no significance differences between Mass and Elite Sport or between Business and Entertainment Sport. Further the respondents placed more emphasis on Mass Sport (43%) than on Elite (29%) or on Commercial Sport (28%). There were no significant differences between Elite Sport and Commercial Sport. The chi square analysis of respondents’ choices for various organizational forms showed that overall they favored public-nonprofit combine form to deliver Mass Sport services, private for-profit organization to deliver Elite Sport services, and private for-profit to deliver Commercial Sport services. 2002-11-22 English text The Ohio State University / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1037630666 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1037630666 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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Significance and Delivery of Sport in Belize: Perceptions of Selected Experts |
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