2017 Volume 31 Pages 1-23
This study had two goals. First, we aimed to identify the components of the outcomes that members of comprehensive community sport clubs achieve through club life in order to collect basic data to create a “quality-of-club-life indicator.” We created outcome items through recordings of interviews with club members. Second, we aimed to describe the process in detail to confirm the validity and reproduction of the outcome items.
In designing the outcome items, we first examined the concept of “club life.” Next, we set seven hypothetical categories to classify the outcomes to be extracted. Subsequently, we collected data through interviews and questionnaire surveys of club members and selected the important items that had significant content related to “a rich club life” from the data. We then grouped items into categories with common meanings, referring to the hypothetical categories. In addition, in each hypothetical category, we grouped important items with common meanings into subcategories. Finally, to include all the outcomes that club members attained, we held a discussion to reorganize the subcategories. We also modified the hypothetical categories based on the composition of the subcategories that were reorganized. The categories of outcomes that were eventually derived were “connection”（9 subcategories）, “trust”（4 subcategories）, “rules”（3 subcategories）, “ikigai”（3 subcategories）, “sport participation”（12 subcategories）, and “learning”（3 subcategories）. The categories are the primary outcome items and the subcategories are their secondary outcome items.
