The Role of tendency toward spirituality and moral ideology among Athletes

Subject Areas : Sociological studies of sports

Hamid Reza Sadeghi ¹ , Rasool Nazari ² , Ghasem Rahimi seroshbaderani ³

1 - Department of Sports Management, Faculty of Sports Science, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Department of Sports Management, Faculty of Sports Science, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
3 - Department of Sports Management, Faculty of Sports Science, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2022-01-21 Accepted : 2022-03-04 Published : 2022-03-21

Keywords: Ethics, Spirituality, Ideology, Athletes, religiousness,

Abstract :

ObjectiveGiven the importance of issues such as spirituality in the sports community, this study is trying to analyze the impact of moral ideology on tendency toward spirituality among the province's athletes Premier League. MethodologyThe present research purpose and cross - is a correlation. The populations in this study are all league players in Isfahan province. Number of athletes has been estimated as 400 people. 196 Cochran based on sampling as a statistical sample were randomly selected. Instruments included religiosity questionnaire Karami and Shaeeri (2008), classification questionnaire moral ideology by Forsyth (1990) consists of idealism and moral relativism law to verify the idealism and moral laws of relativity was used. Face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts in sports management. Cronbach's alpha and test-retest reliability in a preliminary study on the amount of (0.88 and 0.93) was calculated. To analyze the data, descriptive and inferential statistics were used. Data analysis was SPSS version 22. ResultsThe findings showed that the value of 0.505 is the result of moral ideology can justify fifty percent of the athlete's approaches to spirituality. According to the results on the influence of moral ideology on tendency toward spirituality among league players Isfahan, Recommended organizations, to strengthen the moral ideologies and approaches to spirituality to strengthen ethics in athletes have effort.ConclusionAccording to the results of research on the effect of moral ideologies on the tendency to spirituality among athletes, it is suggested that the responsible organizations try to strengthen moral ideologies and morality in the tendency to spirituality among athletes, while institutionalizing idealism in athletes. Sports managers should hold spiritual psychology workshops and in order to institutionalize the rule of law in athletes, encourage coaches and athlete managers to respect the rule of law. In general, it can be acknowledged that there is a direct and strong relationship between moral ideologies and the tendency towards spirituality among athletes, so athletes need a moral teacher as much as they need to learn sports science and technology; because the art of heroism requires a complete course of mental and physical construction to achieve success and continuity. If sports can adapt to these lines, then the athlete can be induced to find a healthy life with good morals along with sports, so the need to pay attention to moral training for sports coaches and also to develop courses called applied ethics. In sports, it seemed necessary, so it seems that the more dynamic and idealistic athletes are, the deeper and more institutionalized the level of meaning in them, leading to the creation of a strong person for society in order to become a role model for adolescents and The youth will become a community. The need to pay attention to moral teachings for players in sports seemed necessary.

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