Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 university of guilan

2 jahrom university

3 PhD. Student, Sport Management at University of Guilan

Abstract

The purpose of this study designing a sports sacred construction in athletic students. The sample is sufficient to model and hypothesis testing (150) of the Eleventh Olympiad sports were classified random sampling survey. The research instrument was a questionnaire made on the basis of theoretical study and interviews (teachers and professors), respectively. The validity of the instrument using the experts (content), Cronbach's alpha (reliability) and reliability factor (fit) was confirmed. To analyze the findings of structural equation modeling (software PLS) was used). The results showed that spirituality and prayer as much as 44 percent of change and moral obligation to directly explain. On the other hand 0.81 and 0.456 are two factors suggest that spirituality and prayer variable indirectly through the mediating variable disposition and sense of commitment and ethics affects 37% of the variable. According to identify and explain the structure and the commitment and moral consequences are expected in the development of sports culture; Athletes can say that the spiritual context of character and a sense of individual and institutional commitment and ethics in sport athletic Process factor in them

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