Modeling the development of universalizing track and field
alireza zamani nukaabadi
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Department of sport sciences, Islamic Azad university, Isfahan branch
)
Mustafa Salman Kazem Kazem
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MS.c. student of sport management, Sport sciences department, Isfahan (Khorasgan) branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran
)
Keywords: Modeling, development, sport for all, track and field.,
Abstract :
The purpose of this research was to model the development of universalizing track and field in Iraq. The research sample consisted of 102 people, including specialists, managers of sports organizations related to track and field, Iraqi athletes and athletics coaches, totaling 102 people, who were selected in a convenience Sampling. The data collection tool was a researcher-made questionnaire based on a 5-point Likert scale, which included items related to the research topic in the form of 21 questions. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by 10 sports management professors and experts, and to measure the reliability, the questionnaire was given to 30 sample people, and after collecting it, the Cronbach's alpha coefficient was 0.89 and confirmed. The results showed that the cultural-social, government-legal, managerial and economic indicators explained a total of about 54% of the variable variance of the development of universalization of athletics and showed that these four components have a high level of explanatory power of the variance of the development of universalization of track and field. Such cultural-social factors with an effect size of 0.92, governmental-legal factors with an effect size of 0.84, managerial factors with an effect size of 0.73, and economic factors with an effect size of 0.76 on the development of universalizing track and field in Iraq were influential.
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