CORRELATION BETWEEN SPORT PARTICIPATION AND SATISFACTION WITH LIFE AMONG SLOVENIAN PARTICIPANTS OF THE LJUBLJANA MARATHON/POVEZANOST MED UKVARJANJEM Z REKREATIVNIM SPORTOM IN VREDNOTENJEM ZADOVOLJSTVA Z ZIVLJENJEM PRI ODRASLIH SLOVENSKIH UDELEZENCIH LJUBLJANSKEGA MARATONA

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between recreational sport participation and satisfaction with life among adult Slovenian participants of the Ljubljana Marathon. This method yielded 1,324 usable survey responses, entailing a 23% response rate; 50.3% of the respondents were women and 49.7% men, with a mean age of 37.8±10.9 years. Participation in recreational sports was measured by asking the respondents how many times a week they typically engage in recreational running and what is the average weekly running distance. The results indicated that, the respondents run 3.4±1.2 times per week, with an average weekly running distance of 35.3±18.9 km. In the first model (R Squared = .047 (Adjusted R Squared = .037), p