Ali Heyrani; saeed khanmoradi; Zahra Rezvani
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to design wrestling improvement strategies for Kermanshah province from the point of view of the experts. The methodology was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The Sample in the qualitative section was based on theoretical saturation and seven people were selected. ...
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The purpose of this study was to design wrestling improvement strategies for Kermanshah province from the point of view of the experts. The methodology was mixed (qualitative and quantitative). The Sample in the qualitative section was based on theoretical saturation and seven people were selected. The population in the quantitative section was all Managers, coaches, elite wrestlers and pioneers of wrestling in Kermanshah province(155 people). According to the hypotheses obtained from the qualitative section, 110 people were selected as samples. Instruments of the study was researcher-made questionnaire obtained from the qualitative section. The reliability of the questionnaire was 0.76 using Cronbach's alpha and validity was confirmed by the use of formal validity based on the opinion of 10 sports management specialists. Data were analyzed by SPSS software using descriptive statistics (mean) and inferential statistics (exploratory factor analysis). LISREL software was also used to perform confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and to test research hypotheses.
The results showed that the final model has nine factors including development, management, championship, talent identification, financial, general, social, knowledge strategies, coach and athlete strategies and model fitting using indicators CFI, NFI, NNFI, IFI, PNFI, RMSEA and χ2 / df were confirmed. Therefore, the officials of the Kermanshah Province wrestling should apply improvement strategies to overcome the obstacles and problems of this popular sports field.
