Social and Cultural factors affecting on youth tendency to public sport (With an emphasis on women)

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• hamed gholampourgaleshkolami ¹
• khalil mirzaeei ²
• bahram ghadimi ³
• zahra alipour darvishi ⁴

¹ PhD student in sport psychology, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

² Associated professor, Roudehen branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran

³ Associated professor, Science and Research branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

⁴ Assistant professor, North Tehran branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of the current research is to survey the influence of Social and Cultural factors on youth tendency to public sport. The research is has been conducted by applied method in its goal and by descriptive one in its path. The population of the research includes all youth in Tehran (about 3040248 person) from which 370 ones were selected in accordance with De Israeil (2008 online) sample size table the size has been increased to 400 for accuracy and has been choosen through the multi-stage cluster random sampling. The Data gathered by the standard questionnaires of the social support, the social acceptance, the social capital, the social favorite behavior, the cultural capital, the cultural intelligence and the religious orientation along with researcher made one about public sport with the CVR: of 0.860 and the content validity: of 0.776 and the reliability: of 0.894. the data has been analysed by the liner Regression and the results shows that lack of social capital, social favorite behavior and social support affect significantly on public behavior and lack of social acceptance, cultural intelligence, cultural capital and belief and value orientations did not affect on public sport.

Keywords

• public sport
• social factors
• cultural factors
• Tehran youth

20.1001.1.20088566.1399.11.41.7.1

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