Identifying and explaining the effective indicators in developing social capital through sports in urban population
Poster Presentation
Paper ID : 1205-SSRC
Authors
1PHD Student in Sport Management, Department of Physical Education And Sport Science, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
2Assistant Professor in Sport Management, Department of Physical Education And Sport Science, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, Iran
Abstract
The evolution and transformation of sports occurs in the social sphere, but its development is achieved in close connection with the social environment. Indeed, sports reflect the social relations.
This study identifies and explains the effective indicators in developing social capital through sports in urban population and presents a model. It is an applied research, of a mixed (quantitative and qualitative) type. It is a descriptive-analytical, exploratory research in its method of data analysis, and a prospective field study in its data collection. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part includes experts in sports management and sociology with a teaching experience of at least 6 years and research on the sports and social capital. Twenty people were selected by purposeful sampling. The population in the quantitative part includes all faculty members of sports management in the country's universities; a sample of 155 people was determined and selected randomly based on the Morgan table. The research data collection tool in the qualitative part was an in-depth and semi-structured interview, and a researcher-made questionnaire in the quantitative part comprising 113 questions and 6 components.
Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics methods were used to analyze the data and respond to the research hypotheses with the help of SPSS version 21 and LISREL version 8.8 software. The findings showed that the identified indicators for the development of social capital through sports in the urban population are the indicators of sports volunteering populations, sports participation, sports teams' fan society, championship sports, sports media, and ritual-traditional sports. The championship sport index, according to the (average) rank of the indices, had the highest rank, and the sports volunteering population index had the lowest rank of importance in influencing the development of social capital through sports. The research model had a good fit.
Since there is a positive relationship between different sports participation and the development of social capital, it is necessary to identify the basic questions of this relationship. Any attempt to strengthen citizens' sports participation can be a valuable strategy for expanding their social capital.
This study identifies and explains the effective indicators in developing social capital through sports in urban population and presents a model. It is an applied research, of a mixed (quantitative and qualitative) type. It is a descriptive-analytical, exploratory research in its method of data analysis, and a prospective field study in its data collection. The statistical population of the research in the qualitative part includes experts in sports management and sociology with a teaching experience of at least 6 years and research on the sports and social capital. Twenty people were selected by purposeful sampling. The population in the quantitative part includes all faculty members of sports management in the country's universities; a sample of 155 people was determined and selected randomly based on the Morgan table. The research data collection tool in the qualitative part was an in-depth and semi-structured interview, and a researcher-made questionnaire in the quantitative part comprising 113 questions and 6 components.
Descriptive statistics and inferential statistics methods were used to analyze the data and respond to the research hypotheses with the help of SPSS version 21 and LISREL version 8.8 software. The findings showed that the identified indicators for the development of social capital through sports in the urban population are the indicators of sports volunteering populations, sports participation, sports teams' fan society, championship sports, sports media, and ritual-traditional sports. The championship sport index, according to the (average) rank of the indices, had the highest rank, and the sports volunteering population index had the lowest rank of importance in influencing the development of social capital through sports. The research model had a good fit.
Since there is a positive relationship between different sports participation and the development of social capital, it is necessary to identify the basic questions of this relationship. Any attempt to strengthen citizens' sports participation can be a valuable strategy for expanding their social capital.
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