Relationship between socio-cultural factors and the tendency of Tehran youth to public sports

Subject Areas : ‌Family

hamed gholampourgaleshkolami ¹ , khalil mirzaeei ² , Bahram Ghadimi ³ , zahra alipourdarvishi ⁴

1 - PhD Student in Sports Sociology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Roodehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
3 - Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

Received: 2019-02-24 Accepted : 2020-06-14 Published : 2020-05-21

Keywords: Social Factors, Cultural Factors, public sport, Tehran youth,

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 Pearson correlation & 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.