Designing a Model of Influencing Factors on Development of Communication between Sports Federations of Iran and Persian Gulf Countries

Different sports federations can try to grow and develop their organization's human resources by using favorable relations with sports federations of other countries. Therefore, the design of the model was the influencing factors on the development of communication between the sports federations of Iran and the countries of the Persian Gulf.

The present research work was conducted in a mixed qualitative and quantitative method. The phenomenological approach was used in the qualitative part, and in the quantitative part, the descriptive survey approach was used. The participating community of the qualitative part includes experts related to the subject of the study, and semi-structured interviews were conducted with 21 of them. The data collection tool in the quantitative part was a researcher-made questionnaire taken from the qualitative part, the content validity of which was confirmed by Several experts, and due to the limitedness of the statistical society, according to the Morgan table, it was completed by 384 people related to the subject. The reliability of the instrument was also estimated using Cronbach's alpha coefficient. Finally, confirmatory factor analysis (structural equation model) was used in order to present the influencing factors on the development of communication between sports federations of Iran and Persian Gulf countries.

According to the information obtained from the research work, 71 primary topics were identified in the form of 11 main topics: media content, behavioral norms, infrastructure development, management strategy, political dimensions, security dimensions, sports interactions, international solidarity, sports communication, national prestige, and educational experiences. Also based on the results of the factor loadings, it can be said that the dimensions of security (0.952) have the most influence and national prestige (0.394) have the least influence on the development of communication between sports federations of Iran and Persian Gulf countries.

It is suggested to the senior managers of sports federations in Iran to use the concepts identified in this research work to improve sports relations with other countries.