Sports activity and quality of life in accounting and administration students in Arequipa

Romero-Carazas R.; Espiritu-Martinez A.P.; Gomez-Perez K.K.; Figueroa-Martinez O.A.; Espiritu-Martinez C.S.; Podestá-Vega E.C.; Usuriaga-Palacios M.N.; Tasayco-Barrios S. · Retos (2025) · DOI: 10.47197/retos.v64.110632

Resumen

Introduction: the growing number of studies that relate sport activity with better health and wellbeing has consolidated the support for sport as a preventive and health promotion approach in all contexts. Objective: to analyze the relationship between sports activity and quality of life in accounting and administration students in Arequipa. Methodology: this study used a quantitative, cross-sectional and explanatory strategy, non-experimental design, descriptive-correlational type based on structural equation modeling (SEM) to identify causal relationships. A total of 1435 accounting and administration students in Arequipa were surveyed by means of a questionnaire to determine the degree of relationship between the variables studied. Results: a significant causal relationship was found between students' quality of life and sport activity (0.889), in addition to the constructs: intensity (0.827), frequency (0.914) and duration (0.861). It also showed a quadratic error (RMSEA) of 0.071 and a discrepancy (CMIN/Gl) of 2.543, which makes the confirmatory model relevant. Conclusions: The constructs frequency, intensity and duration of sporting activity have a statistically significant relationship with quality of life in accounting and administration students in Arequipa.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión; Universidad Tecnológica del Perú; Universidad Peruana Los Andes; Universidad Nacional de Moquegua