Presenting and Explaining the Quantitative Model of the Challenges of Women's Sports Development in Less Privileged Provinces

Zadeh, Mina Hakak; Eslami, Seyede Azam; Chirag Birjandi, Kazem

doi:10.22098/rsmm.2024.15586.1392

Presenting and Explaining the Quantitative Model of the Challenges of Women's Sports Development in Less Privileged Provinces

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

¹ Department of physical education, faculty of literature and humanities,Islamic azad university, Kerman,Iran.

² Islamic Azad University Kerman Branch

³ Department of Physical Education, Birjand Branch, Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran

10.22098/rsmm.2024.15586.1392

Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this research was to analyze and develop a model of the challenges of developing women's sports in low-income provinces. This research was applied in terms of purpose and quantitative in terms of research method and structural equation modeling (SEM) type of research.
Method: The statistical population consists of all managers and experts of the general sports and youth departments, experts of provincial boards, coaches, referees and athletes of different categories, who were selected by available sampling method. The research tool was developed by the researcher. In order to analyze the data, Kalmogorov-Smirnov (K-S), Friedman test and exploratory factor analysis test with Varimax rotation were used using SPSS 22 software. Smart PLS 2 software was used to check the construct validity, confirmatory factor analysis test and structural equation model test using the least squares method.
Results: Based on the results, among the challenges of advancing the development of women's sports in low-income provinces, the dimension of resources with a factor load (0.95) had the greatest effect. Also, managerial factors (0.85), behavioral factors (0.74) and environmental factors (0.37) were other effective dimensions in the structural model. According to the results, it can be stated that policymakers, governing bodies of sports, universities and society should cooperate to increase women's sports participation through increasing awareness, reducing economic barriers and improving physical health and physical fitness.
Conclusion: Increasing women's participation in sports may not only reduce gender inequalities, but may also lead to changes in traditional social norms.

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