Exploring perception dimensions of subjective well-being of residents in the city hosting major sports events: Exemplified by the 31st Summer Universiade

IF 5.6 2区社会学 Q1 URBAN STUDIES

Journal of Urban Management Pub Date : 2026-03-01 Epub Date: 2025-06-25 DOI:10.1016/j.jum.2025.06.006

Xi Zhao , YongTao Zhang , MingTao Wang , MengKai Wang , Hong Wang

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Enhancing the subjective well-being of urban residents is important for the development of the modern city. Major sports events, as highly anticipated sports extravaganzas, not only exert subtle yet pervasive influences on the host-city economy, society, and culture but also have a significant connection with the host-city residents' subjective well-being. Revealing the correlation between major sports events and subjective well-being is essential for enhancing the host-city residents' subjective well-being. Using the 31st Summer Universiade as a case study, this research employs a mixed-methods approach, with Part 1 identifying a theoretical model of the perception dimensions of subjective well-being of residents in the city hosting major sports events through semi-structured interviews and grounded theory. Part 2 employs questionnaire surveys to further explore the intensity of the effect of various dimensions on the host-city residents' subjective well-being within the theoretical model. The results indicate that the perception dimensions of subjective well-being of residents in the city hosting major sports events consist of four dimensions: host-city development status, host-city residents' social perception, host-city residents' sports experiences, and host-city residents' living situation. Furthermore, in terms of path coefficients, the influence of host-city residents' living situation on host-city residents' subjective well-being is the most significant, followed by the host-city development status and host-city residents' sports experiences, while the role of host-city residents' social perception is relatively weak. These findings can provide urban managers with deeper insights into the beneficial effects of major sports events on the host city, such as promoting economic development, enhancing the city's image, improving infrastructure, building sports atmosphere, and accumulating social capital, thereby providing a theoretical foundation for formulating policies and measures to enhance the host-city residents' subjective well-being.

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大型体育赛事城市居民主观幸福感感知维度研究——以第31届世界大学生夏季运动会为例

提高城市居民主观幸福感对现代城市的发展具有重要意义。重大体育赛事作为备受期待的体育盛会，不仅对主办城市的经济、社会和文化产生潜移默化而又无处不在的影响，而且与主办城市居民的主观幸福感有着重要的联系。揭示重大体育赛事与主办城市居民主观幸福感的相关性，对于提高主办城市居民主观幸福感具有重要意义。本研究以第31届世界大学生夏季运动会为例，采用混合方法，通过半结构化访谈和扎根理论，构建了大型体育赛事举办城市居民主观幸福感感知维度的理论模型。第二部分采用问卷调查的方式，在理论模型内进一步探讨各维度对主办城市居民主观幸福感的影响强度。研究结果表明，大型体育赛事主办城市居民主观幸福感感知维度由主办城市发展状况、主办城市居民社会感知、主办城市居民体育体验和主办城市居民生活状况四个维度构成。此外，从路径系数来看，主办城市居民生活状况对主办城市居民主观幸福感的影响最为显著，其次是主办城市发展状况和主办城市居民体育体验，而主办城市居民社会感知的作用相对较弱。这些发现可以让城市管理者更深入地了解重大体育赛事对主办城市的有利影响，如促进经济发展、提升城市形象、改善基础设施、营造体育氛围、积累社会资本等，从而为制定提高主办城市居民主观幸福感的政策措施提供理论依据。

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Journal of Urban Management URBAN STUDIES-

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65 days

期刊介绍： Journal of Urban Management (JUM) is the Official Journal of Zhejiang University and the Chinese Association of Urban Management, an international, peer-reviewed open access journal covering planning, administering, regulating, and governing urban complexity. JUM has its two-fold aims set to integrate the studies across fields in urban planning and management, as well as to provide a more holistic perspective on problem solving. 1) Explore innovative management skills for taming thorny problems that arise with global urbanization 2) Provide a platform to deal with urban affairs whose solutions must be looked at from an interdisciplinary perspective.