Charlotte Tuyckom

• Howest University of Applied Sciences

In this chapter, Van Tuyckom highlights how socially vulnerably youth in Bruges were involved in every step of the process of creating a digital platform to support self-organized sporting activities (‘We app to move’). She elaborates on the organisation of neighbourhood sports in the city of Bruges (Belgium) and discusses the particular challenges...

Abstract For the past 15 years there has been an increase in the number of cross-national surveys on sports-related issues. However, in cross-national research, the quality of the conclusions always depends on the quality of each of the separate national studies. If any of these are flawed, it is possible that the observed variation in outcomes is...

Winning medals at the Olympic Games has become an objective that countries worldwide want to achieve. In line with research devoted to the predictors of success, the present article examines the connection between certain welfare characteristics (political, social, and economic development) and the probability of success in the 1984 and 2004 Olympi...

It is well known that European women are less physically active in their leisure time than European men. Attempts to explain this gender difference often do not succeed in raising the problem above the individual level. However, the size of the disadvantage for women varies considerably across countries, proving that leisure time physical (in)activ...

Although there is a growing agreement among researchers that the modern environment contributes to the current trend of decreasing leisure-time physical activity (LTPA), there are very few studies addressing environmental and policy correlates of LTPA within a cross-national European context. This study describes LTPA patterns across the European U...

The aim of this study was to identify clusters of European nations grouped by sports participation outcomes (organizational context and intensity of sports participation), in order to provide sensible groupings for international comparisons. Sports participation data for the EU-25 were distracted from the 2004 Eurobarometer survey. Both a hierarchi...

For the past fifteen years, there has been an increase in the number of studies com-paring countries, regions and cultures on sports-related dimensions, and sports participation in particular. Research of this kind always rests on the assumption of equivalence of meaning, that is, comparisons between countries/regions/cultures are only worthwhile w...

Introduction L’exercice physique est présenté comme un outil de santé publique et l’avantage pour la santé a largement été accentué pendant les dernières années en Europe. Faits Cet article examine la stratification sociale de l’exercice physique de loisir chez les Européens (EU-27) en 2005. En se basant sur l’Eurobaromètre 64.3, les résultats obt...

Physical activity is an important public health issue and the benefits of an active lifestyle in relation to well-being and health have been strongly emphasised in recent years in Europe, as well as in most parts of the world. However, previous research has shown that physical activity within Europe and its member states is stratified. The present...

This article provides a unique opportunity to compare gender inequalities in sports participation across Europe, and the extent to which this varies by age using large, cross-sections of the population. The Eurobarometer Survey 62.0 (carried out in 2004 at the request of the European Commission and covering the adult population of 25 European membe...

The behavior of adolescents puts them at an increased risk for HIV and other STIs, and their knowledge about HIV/AIDS is often inadequate. An understanding of how AIDS knowledge and sexual activity co-vary among Flemish secondary school students and of how education type, specifically, affects these students is limited. This study addresses the que...

Limited research has been conducted on the effect of opportunities for leisure-time physical activity within the residential environment on leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) behavior in a European context. The purpose of this study was (i) to fill this gap and (ii) explore the potential role of gender and level of urbanization in this regard. B...

Research on sexual orientation and sports is limited in scope. Moreover, it often lacks clearly defined theoretical frameworks. The current study is framed within social identity theory and discusses the impact of Gay Games participation on (1) personal identity, social identity and group feelings, (2) used social creativity strategies to strengthe...

Sports and Europe are inextricably interwoven. On the one hand the Old Continent is the birthplace of modern sport and the Olympic Movement. On the other hand active sport participation has developed into one of the most common forms of leisure activities. Using Eurobarometer-data from 2005 (N = 29193) this paper paints a picture of (the social str...

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