Identification and Validation of Cultural Policy Questionnaire in Iranian Sports

The purpose of the present study was to identify and validate the cultural policy questionnaire in Iranian sports. The current research was an applied research that was conducted in the field.

The present research method was mixed in terms of data collection method, which was done in two qualitative and quantitative methods, in the qualitative part, experts were interviewed, and in the quantitative method, the extracted codes were set as a questionnaire. The statistical population of the qualitative part was the experts, and the statistical population of the quantitative part was the members of the academic faculty of the university, sports managers, deputies, managers and employees of the Ministry of Sports and Youth, managers and employees of the Academy and the National Olympic Committee, heads of sports federations, heads of the sports disciplinary committee. - Ethics Committee in Sports and Mobilization of Athletes was formed, to estimate the sample size, the software used to determine the sample size was used and the sample size was estimated to be 490 people. The analysis of the qualitative part was done manually, as well as the quantitative part, SPSS software version 25 and Amos software version 23 were used to perform calculations.

The results of the qualitative part showed that the cultural policy in Iranian sports has 14 subcategories and these subcategories are divided into four main categories: 1) Inhibiting factors, 2) Facilitating factors, 3) Developmental factors and 4) Consequences. were classified The results of the factor analysis also showed that the fit indices of the research variable measurement model have favorable conditions.

According to the obtained results, it is suggested to managers and officials that they can start the level of culture in sports in madrasa and train cultural balancers, this will lead to the institutionalization of culture in athletes.