Developing the Sustainable Development Model of Student Sport Participation in Iran

The aim of this study was to develop the sustainable development model of student sport participation in Iran. The research method was qualitative using grounded theory that is an inductive and exploratory research method. The research domain included experts and beneficiaries of the near and far environments of student sport. The sampling method was snowball based on the theoretical approach and continued until theoretical saturation. 20 semistructured and exploratory interviews were conducted. The members investigated the validity of the findings by matching methods. The results of data analysis were divided into separate concepts during three levels of open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. The findings showed that the coding process within the 6 dimensions of the paradigm model including contextual factors such as laying the groundwork for software, hardware and specialist human force infrastructure, causal conditions such as creating an attitude of sportsmanship and altruism among students, central phenomenon components such as development of the whole system of sport with educational sport, intervening factors such as the parallelism of sport organizations and strategies such as the revision and facilitation of laws and regulations on the attraction of financial sponsors and charities and consequences such as achieving national dignity and authority was identified and extracted. The results showed that the synergy and participation of families, organizations and institutions enhance student dynamism and social vitality and lay the groundwork for the development of financial sources and infrastructure of student sport.