Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Department of Physical Education, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Shahroud Branch
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood Branch, Shahrood, Iran
3 Assistant Professor of Physical education soprt science,Faculty of Humanities,Islamic Azad University,shahrood,iran
4 Department of Physical Education and Sport Science, College of Faculty of Human Science, Islamic Azad University, Shahroud, Iran
Abstract
The present study was conducted to investigate the performance of councils in attracting public participation for the development of public sports. The present study was an exploratory and analytical study. Participants of the research in qualitative section were professors of sports management and municipal managers who have postgraduate education and management experience, of which 20 people were selected. In a quantitative part of the statistical population is equal to the members of the council of 28 urban neighborhoods of Torbat Heydariyeh, whose number is 280 people and surveyed all sampled. Research items were presented using the Delphi method and a research questionnaire was developed based on the Delphi stage and components. To confirm the validity, ten professors of sports management were interviewed and the reliability of instrument was calculated 0.98 by Cronbach's alpha. Fuzzy Delphi method was used to analyze data in qualitative part and confirmatory factor analysis,, Pearson correlation coefficient and structural equation model were used. Findings showed after factor analysis, four factors of effectiveness and efficiency, information and transparency, regularity, and collective agreement were identified. Also, the model is in favorable state and the performance model of the councils in the development of public sports has favorable fit. According to the findings, it can be concluded that in general, the performance of councilors considered effective on the development of public sports in the city and one of the ways to develop participation in public sports is the optimal performance of councilors in unified manner and with legal considerations.
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