sara keshkar; Negar Sattar; Akbar FaridFathi
Volume 6, Issue 1 , August 2017, , Pages 33-41
Abstract
Today paying attention to sport, beauty, fashion and also demonstration of cultural aspects of body and beauty through media, made everyone tend to have beautiful body. So the purpose of this research was to investigate the role of fashion on girl's tendency towards physical fitness and sport. The research ...
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Today paying attention to sport, beauty, fashion and also demonstration of cultural aspects of body and beauty through media, made everyone tend to have beautiful body. So the purpose of this research was to investigate the role of fashion on girl's tendency towards physical fitness and sport. The research method was descriptive- survey. The population was the whole female students who habituated in AllamehTabataba’I university dormitories (N=1430). Sample size was determined (n= 320) using Morgan sample size table. The research tool was a researcher- made questionnaire and its validity was approved by 15 sociologists and sport management experts and its reliability (α= 0.88) was suitable.Results showed that girls tendency to fashion can predict their tendency to fitness. TV. Fashion demonstration can predict the possibility of girls tendency to fashion and fitness (R=0.298, pFashion can make girls tend towards fashion and fitness.This tendency can also make girls to take part in sport activities. So sport organization authorities can gain benefits from fashion towards motivating society to sport activities and also to design clothes according to our social values to attract girls to physical fitness activities.
Mojtaba Ghasemi siani; S.Mohammad Hossein Razavi; Morteza Dousti
Volume 4, Issue 1 , September 2015, , Pages 71-80
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The purpose of the present research was to determine the role of mass media (television, radio and newspapers) on people’s attitude towards sport for all with a focus on physical fitness in the city of Babolsar. The research had a survey design and enjoyed a descriptive method. The population of ...
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The purpose of the present research was to determine the role of mass media (television, radio and newspapers) on people’s attitude towards sport for all with a focus on physical fitness in the city of Babolsar. The research had a survey design and enjoyed a descriptive method. The population of this research is all the people who regularly and constantly worked in the sport Babolsar stations and estimated the number 2000, with the use of cluster sampling, 220 people were randomly selected as the sample size. The instrument used in this research was a researcher-made questionnaire which had survived the six sports professors’ review for its face validity. Using Cronbach’s alpha, its reliability was found to be r= 0.88, showing the questionnaire’s reliability. used It is inferential and descriptive statistic (the Kolmogorov-Smirnov, the single sample، binominal t-tests and independent- samples t-test) and the research hypotheses were tested at the level of 0.05. The results unveiled that mass media impacted on people’s attitude towards sport for all. the impact was not desirable in which the mean of people’s responses was lower than average level (p≤.50) in most variables. The results showed the extent of this effect is different in men and women and the role of mass media was more in the women’s tendency to the sport for all. Considering the high capacity of media in Iran, people’s attitude towards sport for all can be enhanced by proper planning in television, radio, and newspapers, which will ultimately lead to greater public health.
Mohammad Ghareh; Marjan Adel Gahremani; Hamed Safari
Volume 1, Issue 1 , September 2012, , Pages 21-28
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The purpose of the present study was to examine physical self- descriptive subscales in elite female fitness coaches of Iran. In this survey, 83 female aerobic coaches that participated in an international coaching course were stratified randomly selected and Physical Self-Descriptive Questionnaire (Marsh, ...
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The purpose of the present study was to examine physical self- descriptive subscales in elite female fitness coaches of Iran. In this survey, 83 female aerobic coaches that participated in an international coaching course were stratified randomly selected and Physical Self-Descriptive Questionnaire (Marsh, 1994) were distributed. Content validity of this questionnaire was confirmed in Iran and internal consistency of questionnaire in a pilot study was 0.92. Data analysis was by employing Pearson correlation coefficient, Mann-Whitney, Kruskal-Willis, t independent, ANOVA and K-S tests. The findings showed that there was significant difference between mean score of physical self-descriptive (F=3.082, P=0.021) and also sport competence, strength, endurance and body fat subscales of elite female aerobic coaches with separate of their regular exercise sessions in week (P<0.05). Also, there was significant difference between mean scores of appearance and body fat sub-scales in married and single coaches (P<0.05). Finally, aerobic coaches’ physical self- descriptive has a key role for them to develop their profession.
