Sport and Quality of Life: Practices, Habits and Lifestyles

Introduction (Paolo Corvo).- Part I. General Themes.- The Conceptions of Wellness, Quality of Life and Well-Being in Social Sciences: A Literature Review (Marco Ciziceno).- Sports Participation and Quality of Life: Evidence from EU Microdata (Maurizio Esposito, Ciprian Panzaru).- Conceptual and Operational Problems in Monitoring Participation in Sports (Antonio Mussino).- Football (Bruno Barba).- Atalanta, a Contemporary Myth that Challenges the Big Football Clubs (Bruno Barba, Paolo Corvo).- Part II. Italian Cases.- Urban Sport Population: How the Sporting Habits of Italians have Changed (Fabio Massimo Lo Verde).- Who it Comes from the New Question of well-being in Italy? Practitioners of Sport and Physical Activity (S. Martelli e G. Russo).- Authenticity as Element of Connotation in Sport Tourism Activity: Some Empirical Elements from the Italian Arena (Nico Bortoletto).- Part III. International Perspective.- Social Representations of Physical Disability in Professional Environments (Bernardeau-Moreau Denis).- Socio-economic Insecurity, Gender Inequalities and Socio-spatial Segregation: A Case Study on Physical Education Habits in Higher Education Students of the Opal Coast Littoral (France) ( Alessandro Porrovecchio, Gabriele Di Francesco).- Physical and Sports Activities Diagnosis in Brazil: Methodology to Support Policies to Improve the Population's Quality of Life (Ailton Fernando Santana de Oliveira).- Part IV. Physical Activity and Quality of Life.- Social Fitness and Gamification: The Impact on Body Health and Physical Activity (Loredana Tallarita).- The Running Enemy: Jogging at the Time of Covid-19 pandemic (Michele Fontefrancesco).- Aging and Quality of Life in the Elderly. The Role of Physical Activity (Ivana Matteucci).- Retirement Time: Between Rupture and Continuity of the Habits of Life (Simona Di Mare, Philippe Masson).- Physical Activity as a Daily Practice. "Active ageing" Between the Need for Social Relations and Improving of Living Standards (Luca Benvenga, Elisabetta Trinca).