From leadership research to district action: Achieving national fitness goals through school-community collaboration: a configurational analysis of multi-agent games in China

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Objective The persistent spatial inequality in the distribution of fitness resources is still the key obstacle to achieve the goal of nationwide sports activities. Although school stadiums and gymnasiums account for more than half of the national sports infrastructure, their potential has not been realized to a large extent due to the decentralized governance among community residents, institutional managers and end users. This division has created a gap in implementation and undermined the cooperation between schools and communities in health equity. Methods From the perspective of game theory, the opening of school sports venues is regarded as the result of multi-agent strategic interaction among Social fitness population, School administrators and students. Using the method of fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis (fsqca), this paper discusses the formation mechanism of School sports resources sharing efficiency. Results There is no single necessary condition for the sharing of School sports resources; On the contrary, its implementation depends on the concurrent combination of multi-agent conditions. This study further identified three typical configuration paths: the social driving path led by Social self-organization, cultural identity and common responsibility; School led path supported by system investment, Policy compensation and school society cooperation; Student participation path based on right protection and Security awareness. The robustness check confirms the stability of these paths during calibration and adjustment. Conclusion These research results show that the opening of school venues as a complex adaptive system function, in which the stakeholder configuration determines the success. Alternative governance paths provide operational insights for situational policy design in resource constrained environments, and help integrate educational infrastructure into the community health promotion system. The multi-agent cooperation mechanism can eliminate the structural barriers of national fitness participation, so as to promote the implementation of scientific development in the field of public health.

Study methods

The results are often determined by the interaction of various explanatory factors (42), while the traditional measurement model is difficult to solve the Configurability problem among multiple factors. FsQCA is an increasingly emerging method in Social Sciences (43), which is the reasoning of separating fuzzy combinations of variables. It uses a Boolean system to provide a new analytical perspective for empirical research to a certain extent (44). This paper examines whether a single antecedent constitutes an indispensable constraint for the opening of school sports venues through the necessity analysis, and further identifies which combinations of antecedents can promote the opening of school sports venues under the Joint effect through the sufficiency relationship, so as to reveal multiple implementation paths corresponding to different strategy configurations.

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Zhuang Zhuang; Pengfei Tai; Zhaojin Li; Fugao Jiang. Achieving national fitness goals through school-community collaboration: a configurational analysis of multi-agent games in China. Frontiers in Public Health (2026-05-14). https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2026.1831733

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