Identification and Ranking Deterrent Factors of People with Physical and Dynamic Disabilities from Participating in Sports
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2012, Vol 3, Issue 6
Abstract
This study aimed at identify and rank the factors that didn't let Shiraz city people who have physical and dynamic disabilities do physical activities. Present field study was a descriptive one. Statistical population of the study were whole of the physical and dynamic disabled people of Shiraz (N= 10029), and with aid of Morgan table and random sampling the number of 375 of those were selected as the statistical sample. The tool for collecting data was 2 questionnaires, 1. A scholar made questionnaire for deterrent factors, and 2. Personal characteristics questionnaire, with 27 five valued questions that were divided into 4 contexts. The questionnaire nominal and contextual validity were determined with 12professors of physical education faculty of Shahid Chamran university of Ahwaz city. Constituent validity was KMO= 0.77 and its reliability by Cronbach's were calculated 0.87. In this study we used methods of descriptive statistics for describing the study variables, Kolmogrov – Smirnov test for normality, and inferential statistics (Friedman test) for testing and ranking. Results showed that 58.2% of samples have participated in sport activities, the results of Friedman ranking test showed, 1. Environmental deterrent factors (transportation), 2. Economical factors, 3. Facilities related factors and, 4. Socio – cultural factors, respectively, was the most important deterrent factors that didn't let the disabled participate in physical activities.
Authors and Affiliations
Abolfath Geshtasebi| Master of Sport Management. Physical Education and Sport Science Faculty. Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Iran., Abdolrahman Mehdipour*| Assistant Professor of Sport Management. Physical Education and Sport Science Faculty. Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Iran.mehdipour.rah@gmail.com, Mehdi Zarghami| Professor of Sport psychology. Physical Education and Sport Science Faculty. Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Iran., Mohsen Ghanbarzadeh| Assistant Professor of Sport physiology. Physical Education and Sport Science Faculty. Shahid Chamran University of Ahwaz, Iran.
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