Author(s): YAMADA, N.1, OSAKI, T.1, KAWANISHI, T.2, KOZAKAI, R.3, KAWANISHI, M.3, Institution: HOKUSHO UNIVERSITY, Country: JAPAN, Abstract-ID: 2022

(Introduction) There are approximately 3,600 Comprehensive Community Sports Clubs (CCSCs) in Japan. Japan Sports Agency has identified strengthening the organization and expanding the role of CCSCs as one of the measures to be taken by 2026. In order to further improve the quality of CCSCs, it is important to strengthen their empowerment (EP) as a social group. In the study of EP in integrated clubs, the authors research (Yamada et al., 2020) suggests that Japanese CCSCs lack the ability to collaborate with external organizations, and that it is necessary to develop an organizational structure that integrates with the community and related organizations in the future.
(Purpose) The purpose of this study was to clarify the factor characteristics that constitute the EP of CCSCs and to obtain basic data for the future development of EP evaluation indexes focusing on the simplicity of CCSCs.
(Methods) An Internet survey was conducted on sixty registered clubs in Hokkaido for one month from September 2023, with responses obtained from forty clubs. The survey content was developed based on the EP concepts of Oakley (2000) and other researchers. Each item was rated and measured on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from "agree" to "disagree.
(Results) The comparison of the mean values of the twenty items used in the survey revealed that the internal EP, which is the basic organizational structure of CCSC, such as "membership management" and "organizational management," tended to be high. On the other hand, external EP, which is related to cooperation with external organizations such as exchanges with "private sports organizations" and "other CCSCs," tended to be low. The following six factors were extracted from the results of the factor analysis of EP. Each factor was named "compliance," "school collaboration," "financial management," "private sector collaboration," "membership management," and "human resource management. The contribution rate of these factors was 68.3%. Cronbach’s coefficient was α=.818, indicating stable reliability for each factor and the entire rating scale. There was no significant relationship between the factor scores and the basic attributes of the CCSC.
(Conclusion) The EP evaluation indices of CCSC were found to consist of compliance, financial management, membership management, and human resource management for the internal EP, and school collaboration and private-sector collaboration for the external EP. These factor structures are similar to those of the EP scale in the authors previous study, and further study is needed to examine the validity of the scale while simplifying it.
(References)
Oakley Peter, and Clayton Andrew. (2000) THE MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF EMPOWERMENT，INTRAC，RESOURCE DOCUMENT, Occasional Papers Series No.26,1-69.
Yamadam, N (2019) Empowerment evaluation of comprehensive community sports clubs, Masters thesis, Hokusho University,1-75.