Volume 4,Issue 3
Forging Collective Identity and Striving Spirit through Basketball Culture: An Ideological and Political Education Perspective in Dongguan Universities
This study investigates the role of basketball culture (BC) in shaping university students’ collective identity (CI) and striving spirit (SS) from the perspective of ideological and political education (IPE) in universities in Dongguan, China. Grounded in social identity theory and the educational principle of “cultivating virtue”, the research constructs a structural equation model (SEM) to examine the relationships among BC, IPE, CI, and SS. Using a stratified random sample of 305 university students, data were collected through a structured questionnaire and analyzed via SPSS and AMOS. The results reveal that BC has significant positive effects on IPE, CI, and SS, while IPE exerts a stronger direct influence on both CI and SS. Moreover, IPE plays a substantial mediating role, accounting for over 60% of the total effect of BC on students’ value development. These findings suggest that while BC provides an important experiential platform for value cultivation, its educational impact is significantly enhanced through systematic ideological and political guidance. The study contributes to the theoretical understanding of sports-based value education by clarifying the mechanism through which BC influences student development. Practically, it offers insights for universities to integrate sports culture with IPE by constructing a coordinated “culture–education–development” framework.
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