Structural relationships between awareness of sports rights, social responsibility, team cohesion, and professional ethics in athletes
Subject Areas :
1 - Master of Criminal Law and Criminology, Gorgan Branch, Islamic Azad University, Gorgan, Iran
Keywords: Social responsibility, professional ethics, team cohesion, awareness of sports rights,
Abstract :
The present study was designed and implemented with the aim of structural relationships between awareness of sports rights, social responsibility, team cohesion and professional ethics in athletes. The present study is a descriptive research type, which from the perspective of the objective is an applied research that was conducted in the field. The method of the present study is a survey in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of the study included all male professional athletes active in basketball who were active in the Basketball Premier League in 2023-2024, whose number was about 300 people based on estimates. According to Morgan's sample size table, 169 people were identified as the research sample based on the available sampling method. Finally, after distributing and collecting the research questionnaires; 125 questionnaires were analyzed. The data collection tool in the present study was a standard questionnaire. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used in the present study. The mean and standard deviation were used in the descriptive statistics section. Also, the structural equation method was used to examine the research factors. All data analysis processes of the present study were carried out in SPSS and PLS software. According to the results of the research model, it was determined that according to the t-value of the relationships, it was determined that all research relationships were significant due to the t-value being higher than 1.96. The results showed that awareness of sports law has a significant effect on social responsibility. Also, awareness of sports law has a significant effect on professional ethics and team cohesion. The results also showed that social responsibility has a significant effect on professional ethics and team cohesion. According to the results of the model, it was also determined that professional ethics has a significant effect on team cohesion. In order to examine the fit of the research model, selected indicators were used.
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