Determining Indices and Cultural-Spiritual Characteristics of Country Sport

Knowing the cultural-spiritual characteristics of sports can help us to promote it and the formation of many behaviors and social patterns. The purpose of the present study was to determine the cultural and spiritual characteristics and indices of Iranian sport.

The statistical population in the qualitative sector was composed of staff managers and professors of sport management and researchers who have done research in this field and In the statistical population, including sports managers and specialists, sport management professors with over 3 years of teaching in the socio-cultural field of sport and researchers who have done research studies in this field. In this section, 65 researcher-made questionnaires were distributed purposefully online. Field research methods including interview and researcher-made questionnaire were used to collect the data. In the quantitative data analysis, descriptive statistics were used for demographic characteristics and inferential statistics including Friedman test at the significant level 0.05 was used by SPSS to prioritize indices and components.

The results showed that in the ranking related to the components of sport cultural index of the country, the highest average score was related to Cultural activities in sport (3.54) and the lowest average rating was related to Communication and cultural exchange in sport (1.64) has been. The highest mean score was related to spiritual activity in sport (3.81) and the lowest mean was religious identity in sport (1.34).