Proceedings of the 2025 5th International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2025)

The Influence of Participation in International Sports Events on College Students’ National Identity: A Case Study of Chengdu FISU World University Games

Authors
Jingyue Zheng1, Ran Huang1, Changying Pang1, Jingxuan Wang1, *
1School of Management, Chengdu University of Information Technology, Chengdu, 610103, People’s Republic of China
*Corresponding author. Email: 642921312@qq.com
Corresponding Author
Jingxuan Wang
Available Online 26 February 2026.
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-541-6_123How to use a DOI?
Keywords
International Sports Events; Event Participation; Event Satisfaction; National Identity; College Students
Abstract

International sports events are an important window to enhance the national image and show the national cultural soft power, and they are also an important way to enhance the national identity of college students. This paper takes the Chengdu FISU World University Games as the research object, and with the help of SPSS tools, using the literature research method and questionnaire survey method, constructs a model of the influence of international sports Event Participation on college students’ National Identity with Event Satisfaction as the mediating variable. The conclusions are as follows: Event Participation significantly and positively affects National Identity; Event Satisfaction plays a mediating role in the process of Event Participation affecting National Identity.

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Volume Title
Proceedings of the 2025 5th International Conference on Culture, Design and Social Development (CDSD 2025)
Series
Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research
Publication Date
26 February 2026
ISBN
978-2-38476-541-6
ISSN
2352-5398
DOI
10.2991/978-2-38476-541-6_123How to use a DOI?
Copyright
© 2026 The Author(s)
Open Access
Open Access This chapter is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits any noncommercial use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license and indicate if changes were made.

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