Research on Educational Sport

Modeling effect of parents’ social support, perceived competence and school climate on pleasure from participation in physical activity of female students

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Nasser Bai 1
Akram Esfehani Nia 2

1 Department of Physical Education, Azadshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Azadshahr, Iran.

2 2. Department of Physical Education, Aliabad Katoul Branch, Islamic Azad University, Aliabad Katoul, Iran.

https://doi.org/10.22089/res.2018.5783.1448
Abstract
The purpose of present research was to modeling effect of parents’ social support, perceived competence and school climate on pleasure from participation in physical activity of female students. The research method is descriptive correlational type and population of present study consisted of all female secondary high school students (10, 11 and 12) in the Azadshahr city of Golestan province (N=1086), which according to Cochran formula, 248 students were selected as sample size by simple sampling method. For collecting research data, Duncan et al (2005) parents’ social support questionnaire, Xiang et al (2003) perceived competence questionnaire, Anderson (2007) school climate questionnaire and Moore et al (2009) pleasure from participation in physical activity questionnaire were used. Validity of the questionnaires was verified by 5 masters of sport management and internal consistency of questionnaires by using Cronbach's alpha was determined respectively 0.89, 0.91, 0.78 and 0.81. Descriptive and inferential statistics methods were used for data analysis. The results of study showed that parents’ social support, perceived competence and school climate have a positive and significant effect on the pleasure from participation in physical activity of female students. Considering the positive role of parents’ social support, perceived competence and school climate on the pleasure from participation in physical activity of female students: parent participation in physical activity with their daughters, parent support for school sports programs, provide sports programs in schools based on the sporting capabilities of students and creating more opportunities for sports participation of female student recommended.

Keywords

Social Support
Competence
School Climate
Pleasure from Participation in Physical Activity

Subjects

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Research on Educational Sport
Volume 7, Issue 16
April 2019
Pages 307-326

  • Receive Date 30 April 2018
  • Revise Date 05 August 2018
  • Accept Date 14 August 2018

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