It's Really Not About the Bike: Exploring Attraction and Attachment to the Events of the Lance Armstrong Foundation

By Kevin Filo, Daniel C. Funk, D. O’Brien. 2008

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Sociology and Political Science

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Exploring PERMA in spectator sport: Applying positive psychology to examine the individual-level benefits of sport consumption (2016, background): “Sport research has revealed that meaning contributes to participation in charity sport events, documenting evidence of individuals deriving emotional, functional, and symbolic meaning from their participatory experiences (Coghlan & Filo, 2013; Filo et al., 2008, 2009).”
The Antecedents and Outcomes of Attachment and Sponsor Image Within Charity Sport Events (2010, background): “The contribution of both recreation and charity motives demonstrates that events can satisfy both core and contextual motives (Filo et al., 2008).”
The Impact of Constraints on Motivation, Activity Attachment, and Skier Intentions to Continue (2011, methodology): “Our data propose that individuals who express a high desire to participate in a specific activity (high intensity of motivation) are more likely to develop higher levels of emotional, functional, and symbolic meaning with the activity (e.g., Filo et al., 2008).”
The Meaning and Measurement of a Sport Event Experience Among Active Sport Tourists (2010, background): “Certainly, these results could also relate to functional and psychological aspects of meaning attached to an event (Filo et al., 2008).”
Attracting and Leveraging Visitors at a Charity Cycling Event (2010, methodology): “Not surprisingly, the desire to support others is a strong motivator for participation in charity sport events (e.g. Filo et al., 2008; Scott & Solomon, 2003).”