Table 2. Effects of individual and rural-urban disparity factors on interest in recreational sports participation.

	Null model (model 1)	Model 2	Model 3	Full Model (model 4)
Intercept	0.786 (p = 0.017)	0.784 (p = 0.013)	0.787 (p = 0.015)	0.784 (p = 0.012)
Individual-level factor
Male gender		0.038 (p = 0.018)		0.038 (p = 0.018)
Educational attainment		0.114 (p = 0.013)		0.112 (p = 0.012)
Frequent participation		0.240 (p = 0.028)		0.241 (p = 0.028)
Health-motivated interest		0.185 (p = 0.031)		0.184 (p = 0.032)
Appearance-motivated interest		0.0699 (p = 0.017)		0.070 (p = 0.017)
Rural-urban disparity level factors
Degree of urbanization			-0.024 (p = 0.017)	-0.019 (p = 0.009)
Income			0.006 (p = 0.008)	-0.003 (p = 0.007)
Variance components
Rural-urban disparity level variance (τ00)	0.088	0.047	0.076	0.041
Individual level variance (σ 2)	0.161	0.139	0.161	0.139