The team identification–social psychological health model predicts that sport team identification leads to social connections which, in turn, result in well-being. This pattern of effects was tested in a sample of 380 college students completing measures of sport fandom, identification with their university’s men’s basketball team, sense of belonging, and meaning in life. Mediation analyses and structural equation modeling indicated that, as expected, belonging mediated the relationship between identification and meaning in life. In addition, belonging also mediated the relationship between fandom and meaning in life. Discussion includes the importance of the well-being consequences of social ties gained through sport fandom, including connections that are more casual in nature.

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测试团队认同——社会心理健康模型：团队认同、体育迷、归属感和生活意义之间的中介关系。

团队认同——社会心理健康模型预测，运动团队认同会导致社会联系，进而导致幸福感。这种效应模式在 380 名大学生的样本中进行了测试，这些学生完成了体育迷、对大学男子篮球队的认同感、归属感和生活意义的测量。中介分析和结构方程模型表明，正如预期的那样，归属感介导了认同和生活意义之间的关系。此外，归属感还调节了狂热与生活意义之间的关系。讨论包括通过体育狂热获得的社会联系的福祉后果的重要性，包括本质上更随意的联系。