The Psychological Continuum Model: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding an Individual's Psychological Connection to Sport

By Daniel C. Funk, Jeffery D. James. 2001

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science

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Sport consumer motivation: Autonomy and control orientations that regulate fan behaviours (2012, background): “However, most often, no organizing framework is relied on to guide research into sport consumer motivation (e.g., Funk & James, 2001).”
Conceptualization and measurement of fan engagement: empirical evidence from a professional sport context. (2014, background): “Attending games, watching games on television, purchasing team products, reading sport magazines and newspapers, and listening to games on the radio Funk and James (2001)”
International Sport Event Participation: Prior Sport Involvement; Destination Image; and Travel Motives (2007, background): “In summary, the PCM’s framework, and in particular the attraction process, accounts for the complexity of motivation for international sport event participation.”
Sport spectatorship and life satisfaction: A multicountry investigation (2017, positive): “Moreover, to date, no research has jointly assessed the two pathways in a single study, despite the fact that behavioral and psychological engagement respectively represent distinctive ways by which people express their connections to spectator sport events and teams (Funk & James, 2001).”
Segmenting Winter Sport Tourists by Motivation: The Case of Recreational Skiers (2009, methodology): “The application of the psychological continuum model ( Funk & James, 2001 ; 2006 ), for example, can be a useful approach for further examining the role of motivation in skiers' decision-making process.”
Exploring PERMA in spectator sport: Applying positive psychology to examine the individual-level benefits of sport consumption (2016, background): “…researchers have suggested hedonic factors are an important aspect or outcome of sport consumption (e.g., Pawlowski et al., 2014), particularly for less involved consumers who attend or watch sport to have a pleasurable experience (e.g., Doyle, Kunkel & Funk, 2013; Funk & James, 2001, 2006).”
The Antecedents and Outcomes of Attachment and Sponsor Image Within Charity Sport Events (2010, methodology): “The PCM was selected for the current research because of its focus on the psychological relationship an individual forms with a sport object (Funk & James, 2001).”
Destination Fascination and Destination Loyalty: Subjective Well-Being and Destination Attachment as Mediators (2020, methodology): “The flow of levels in PCM by Funk and James (2001) support the logic of destination attachment as a mediator of the shift from destination fascination to destination loyalty.”
Difference in Interrelationship between Spectators’ Motives and Behavioral Intentions Based on Emotional Attachment (2008, neutral): “Another conceptual support for the debate on relationship between attachment and motives could be seen in the study of Funk and James (2001).”