Institutional Environment of Students’ Sports Activities in Central Europe
Institutional Environment of Students’ Sports Activities in Central Europe

Summary/Abstract: The aim of our study is to scrutinise the differences in sporting habits, sport motivations of students, and the institutional environment of practising intense sports in higher education institutions of Hungary, Slovakia, Ukraine, Romania, and Serbia. In our previous examination, we compared the sporting habits and the socio-cultural factors affecting sports activities of students country by country. We learned that even though students of this region are characterised by similarly low frequency of sports activities (merely once a week), they are under different influences in the individual countries, so the need for an institution-by-institution comparison inevitably arose. We use both quantitative and qualitative methods. In the quantitative part of the research, our questionnaires were answered by 2,017 students from 15 institutions in 2015; in the qualitative part, we conducted eight interviews with institution leaders responsible for sports and physical education teachers. The conclusive finding of our research is that the sporting habits of students in higher education are obviously influenced by the institutional effect. This research has confirmed that an adequate sports infrastructure, a wide range of options, well-organised sport programs, and an institutional sports strategy can increase the amount of students’ sports activities.

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