The Relationship between Media Use and Communication Skills and Ethical Behaviors of Sport Science Students

The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between media consumption and communication skills and ethical behaviors of sport science students. Method of this study is descriptive-correlational and in terms of the aim is applicable. The statistical population of the study consisted of sport science students of Islamic Azad University in the academic year of 1397-98 (6230 people), that Using Cohen, Morgan, and Georgia's sample size determination table, and based on the cluster random sampling method, 362 people were selected as the research sample. To collect data used Communication Skills Questionnaire (Qassemi, 2016), Media Consumption Questionnaire (Mahmoudian et al, 2015) and Ethical Behavior Questionnaire (Ziolowski et al, 2012). The Reliability and Validity of the research tools were evaluated. Findings of research at significant levels of 0.05 showed that media consumption has a significant effect on communication skills and ethical behaviors and communication skillshas a significant effect onethical behaviors of sports science students. Keywords Media consumption, communication skills, ethical behavior.