Analysis of the mental patterns of experts regarding the effective economic examples in the development of individual sports of Iraq

The purpose of this research is to identify effective economic examples in the development of individual sports in Iraq. From the point of view of the goal, this research is placed in the category of applied research, its nature, is in the category of exploratory-descriptive research, also because of the use of qualitative and quantitative methods, and it is in the category of mixed research. The statistical population of this research included all experts in the field of sports economics and marketing in Iraq, professors of sports management, prominent and prominent athletes of individual disciplines in Iraq. 11 interviews were conducted with the purposeful sampling method and up to the theoretical saturation of the data, and the Q questionnaire was completed by 25 people, and the analyzes were performed by SPSS software. Using interviews and examining the theoretical foundations of the research, a total of 56 propositions were identified as economic examples affecting the development of individual sports in Iraq, and finally 29 propositions were confirmed. According to the exploratory factor analysis test and Varimax rotation, the experts identified 7 factors in total, which include professionalists, consequentialists, privateists, financialists, protectionists, managerialists and mediaists in order of priority. In general, it should be stated that economic examples affecting the development of individual sports are affected by all known mental patterns, and if any of these patterns are changed or removed, it will affect the development of individual sports.