Fierce Heat and Players’ Health: Examining the View on Japan High School Baseball
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Methods and Data
2.1. Experimental Design
2.1.1. First Survey
Do you agree that the operation system of the tournament should be changed to protect the school player’s health?
1 (Strongly disagree) to 5 (Strongly agree).
2.1.2. Follow-Up Survey
2.2. Data
2.3. Method
3. Results
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Description | Mean | s.d. | |
---|---|---|---|
KOSHIEN | Do you agree that the operation system of the tournament should be changed to protect the school player’s health.?1 (strongly disagree)–5 (strongly agree) | 3.58 | 1.00 |
INFORMATION | Equals 1 if the information of climate change is provided, 0 otherwise. | 0.50 | 0.50 |
UNIV | Equals 1 if respondents graduated from university, 0 otherwise. | 0.25 | 0.43 |
YOUNG_AGE | Equals 1 if respondents are younger than 30 years old, 0 otherwise. | 0.18 | 0.38 |
FEMALE | Equals 1 if respondents are women, 0 otherwise | 0.49 | 0.50 |
Observations | 14,570 |
KOSHIEN | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
(1) | (2) | (3) | (4) | |
INFORMATION | 0.234 *** | 0.187 *** | 0.221 *** | 0.223 *** |
(0.01) | (0.02) | (0.02) | (0.01) | |
INFORMATION*FEMALE | 0.098 *** | |||
(0.02) | ||||
INFORMATION*YOUNG AGE | 0.077 ** | |||
(0.03) | ||||
INFORMATION*UNIV | 0.047 ** | |||
(0.02) | ||||
Within R-squared | 0.06 | 0.06 | 0.08 | 0.08 |
Observations | 14,570 | 14,570 | 14,570 | 14,570 |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleYamamura, Eiji. 2022. "Fierce Heat and Players’ Health: Examining the View on Japan High School Baseball" Sustainability 14, no. 3: 1399. https://doi.org/10.3390/su14031399