Determination of the Relationship Between the Socio- Economic Status of Women and the Type of Their Sportive Fields in the Sportive Teams of Isfahan

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the socioeconomic status of women in the sport teams of Isfahan and the type of sport that they choose to practice. The statistical population includes 180 women who participated in the national championship competitions and leagues, representing the sport teams of Isfahan. Based on the all-counting method, this population was selected as the statistical sample. In order to collect information, a standard questionnaire to determine the socio-economic situation was used, which its credibility was endorsed by a number of experts in physical educations and sociology. This test was also examined on 30 persons from the sample under study and a Correlation Coefficient of 0.76 was yielded. Methodology of the present study is descriptive and correlative. In order to assess the independent variable, i.e. socio-economic situation, the observation method was used. It would imply that first the observatory parameters such as education, profession, income, etc., which are used to evaluate the socioeconomic situation, were considered and subsequently the level of benefiting from these parameters were used to determine the socio-economic situation of the individuals.In order to determine the relation between these parameters, based on whether these parameters are “ordinal” and “nominal”, the chi square test was carried out to assess the “correlation” yielded from the C contingency coefficient. Also, in order to investigate the correlation between the variables, the one dimensional chi square test was carried out for each sport separately. In order to compare the socioeconomic situation between individual and group sports, regarding that the measurement scale was “ordinal”, the non-parametric U Man-Vitny test was implemented.The results of this research indicated that there is a significant relation between the socioeconomic situation of sports-women and the type of sport that they choose. While most the sportswomen who play, basketball and handball belong to the middle socioeconomic class of the society, majority of respondents who play personal defense with cold arms are from the very lower socioeconomic class and the participants in volleyball and karate belong to the middle-lower class of the society. Moreover, there is a meaningful relation the family level of income- father education level and the type of sports they choose; while no significant relation was found between the type of sport and the social respect if the family’s profession. Also, there was no considerable difference observed in comparing the socioeconomic situation of participants in individual and group sports.Although the result of the present study indicated that the socio-economic situation of individuals could be a decisive factor to the type of sport they choose, this could not be generalized to all sports and sport communities. In other words, for the purpose of achieving more thorough conclusions, this topic has to be implemented in other sport branches and communities.