A Study on the Nostalgia effect of Dance for All Participants during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Abstract

Abstract Background: The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of participants' nostalgia for the before COVID-19 DFA experience on their future participation continuation intention. To achieve this purpose, nostalgia, cognitive emotion regulation (CER), coping flexibility (CF), resilience, and participation continuance intention (PCI) were set as major variables and the structural influence relationship between them was explored. Methods: A survey was con-ducted on 557 “dance for all” participants (DFAP’s) who joined public sports facilities, academies, and clubs in Seoul and Gyeonggi Province in South Korea. Data analysis was performed on Windows PC/SPSS 26.0 and AMOS 24.0 ver. frequency analysis, correlation analysis, confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling were used to analyze the survey results. Results: First, all sub-factors of the nostalgia of DFAP’s has a statistically significant effect on CER. Second, CER of DFAP's has a statistically significant effect on CF. Third, CER of DFAP's does not have a statistically significant effect on resilience. Fourth, CF and resilience of DFAP's has a statistically significant effect on PCI. Conclusions: Therefore, this study’s novelty is that it provides practical implications for the application of nostalgia as an alternative to satisfying the desire to participate in physical activities such as DFA during the “post COVID-19”era.