Normalization of National Pride Questionnaire with Emphasis on Sport

The purpose of study was normalization of national pride questionnaire with emphasis on sport. Population of study consists of all faculty members and PhD students of physical education and other governmental university of guilan, Kerman, Esfahan, shahrkord, Mashhad, Semnan and Kermanshah disciplines. Cluster-based randomization according to geographical distribution used in this resarch that 325 individuals responded to questionnaire. According to survey of literature, semi-structured interview with sport management scholars and social science, questionnaire was conducted and finally 71 questions based on seven factors of cultural and literature pride(12 items), history and civilization pride(8 items), military pride(14 items), politics pride(10 items), science pride(8 items), economic pride(7 items) and sports pride(14 items) catagoryed. Internal consistency of the questionnaire according to pilot study from viepoint of 50 peeson of samples doing and Cronbach alpha was =α 0.79 that confirmed reliability of the questionnaire. Also, confirmatory factor analysis used for construct validity. Result showed that national pride questionnaire with emphasis on sport has appropriate tool for measuring national pride. Also, final model of reasrch showed that militariy and sience prides in priority was first and tow rank of national pride and spor t pride had five ranks and economic pride had end rank of national pride. Suggest that future researchers used this questionnaire in big and different sample to assess national pride.