Hossein Eydi; Homayun Abbasi; Farhad Nazari; Kamran Eydipour; Abouzar Souri
Volume 2, Issue 4 , May 2014, , Pages 91-102
Abstract
Olympic Games as the greatest sport event are of the most importance value for nations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and analyze the place of Iranian athletes that participated in Olympic Games (1948-2012). Research method was descriptive- analytic and retrospective. Statistical Society ...
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Olympic Games as the greatest sport event are of the most importance value for nations. The purpose of this study was to evaluate and analyze the place of Iranian athletes that participated in Olympic Games (1948-2012). Research method was descriptive- analytic and retrospective. Statistical Society was all Iranian athletes (N=584) participated in 15 periods of summer Olympic games. Information of research was collected from Olympic Games site. For analysis of data, descriptive and inferential (K-S, person and kurscalvalis test) statistic were used. Results showed that wrestling, weight lifting and taekwondo according to mean rank had first to three ranks. Significant relationship was between acquired all medals and number of participated athletes (p<0/01 r= .434 0/0)as well. Between numbers of men athletes participants and total medal acquired also were significant relationship (p<0/01 r= .446 0/0), In respect of this matter, it is important that Iranian sports officials consider further medalist Olympic disciplines, Specially pay attention to women's sports and athletics and swimming courses. And also they should try to send more athletes in numerous sports teams.
Hamed Farzi; Homayun Abbasi; Abouzar Souri; Farhad Nazari
Volume 2, Issue 3 , March 2014, , Pages 75-88
Abstract
The aim of this research is to examine the relationship of hardiness and achievement motivation with perception of success in Iranian and Iraqi students, participating in intercollegiate matches in Kermanshah. The research methodology was descriptive-correlation and the population comprising 225 people ...
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The aim of this research is to examine the relationship of hardiness and achievement motivation with perception of success in Iranian and Iraqi students, participating in intercollegiate matches in Kermanshah. The research methodology was descriptive-correlation and the population comprising 225 people that 144 (84 Iranian student, 60 Iraqi student) of the population were selected through stratified random sampling in proportion to the volume. The measurement instruments of this research were questionnaire of H.S (Kobassa, 1979), Achievement Motivation (Hermance, 1970) and Perception of Success questionnaire (Tresure & Roberts, 1998). To confirm the reliability of the questionnaires, the Cronbach's alpha was used, to this end, a total of 30 questionnaires were distributed among the students. After collecting the questionnaires and analyzing them, Cronbach's alpha coefficient for H.S, A.M and Perception of Success were equal to 0.86, 0.75 and 0.78 respectively. To analyze the data, the descriptive statistics and to test the hypothesis Pierson correlation coefficient and multiple regression were employed. The results showed that there were significant relationship between hardiness and perception of success (P< 0.001) and between Achievement Motivation and perception of success (P< 0.001). Results of regression analysis showed that hardiness explained 50% and achievement motivation explained 43% of variance under variable student’s perception of success. Finally we can say, hard people can control their environment and challenge with the changes in the environment and consider these as success factors and societies without motivation, in spite of good facilities and conditions, have low chance to progress.
