The Effect of Media Consumption on the Athletic Performance with the Intervening Role of Quality of life among Table Tennis Athletes in the Province of Tehran

Subject Areas : Sports Science and Healthy

Alireza Zand ¹ , Golamreza Faraji ²

1 - Assistant Professor, Shahr Quds Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Shahr Quds Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2022-03-26 Accepted : 2022-06-03 Published : 2022-06-22

Keywords: Table Tennis, Athletic performance, media consumption, province of Tehran, Athletes,

Abstract :

The purpose of the present study is to review the effect of media consumption on the athletic performance with the intervening role of quality of life among table tennis athletes in the province of Tehran. This study is descriptive-correlational and was conducted through field research using questionnaires. The statistical population consisted of all table tennis athletes in the province of Tehran among whom 1500 members were active according to the obtained information from the province assembly. Based on Morgan table, 306 athletes were chosen as the sample of study. In this regard, three questionnaires including Media Consumption by Mahmoudian et al. (2015), World Health Organization Quality of Life (1999), and Athletic Performance by Qasemi (2012) were used.  The reliability of the questionnaires was calculated to be 0.86%, 0.081%, and 0.91% respectively. Descriptive statistics was used for the classification of raw scores, design of frequency distribution table, and assessment of dispersion indices such as mean, standard deviation and frequency. Besides, the research hypothesis was tested using Path Analysis and SPSS. The results showed that media consumption is effective on the athletic performance of table tennis athletes with the intervening role of quality of life among table tennis athletes in the province of Tehran.

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