Abstract:
The general objective of the present research was to investigate the deterrent factors of female college students' participation in sports activities at Khorasgan Azad University. To this end, 498 female students were selected to answer questions posed in this regard. Of this number, 300 stated that they participate in sports activities (102 people once a week or more, 129 people once a month or more, and 69 people once a year or more), while another 198 people stated that they do not participate in sports activities. The deterrent factors investigated in this study included these 9 factors: time, money, interest, transportation, facilities, social relationships, lack of awareness, ability and skill, and readiness and health. The research results, based on the collected information, were analyzed using univariate analysis of variance and independent Tukey tests, multivariate analysis of variance, and the Friedman test. The most important deterrent factors from the perspective of participating and non-participating students in sports activities were the two factors of facilities and social relationships, which were significant at the P < 0.05 level. Students who do not participate in sports activities considered the impact of deterrent factors such as transportation, social relationships, lack of awareness, skill, and health to be greater than other factors. Based on the Friedman test in this study, the deterrent factors in order are: facilities, social relationships, transportation, lack of awareness, time, money, ability and skill, interest, and readiness and health.
Machine summary:
Students who do not participate in sports activities considered the impact of inhibiting factors such as: transportation, social relations, lack of awareness, skill, and health to be greater than other factors.
From 1970 onwards, in the field of investigating the identification of inhibiting factors for recreational sports activities, research was conducted abroad, and researchers presented and implemented many research plans, all of which examine the existing personal and social barriers to women's participation in sports and recreational activities (Deem 1, 1982; Dixey and Talbot 2, 1982; and Henderson 3, (1).
With regard to these points and considering the role and position of sports and physical education in the university, the researcher set out to investigate the inhibiting factors of sports activities among female students.
The questions were consistent with 9 inhibiting factors of sports activities (time, money, interest, transportation, facilities, social relations, unawareness, skill, and health) and were measured with 4 qualitative scales: very much, much, medium, and little.
In the present study, the inhibiting factors of facilities, time, money, transportation, social relations, interest, unawareness, ability, skill, health, and readiness were questioned among two groups of female students: participating and non-participating.
The students questioned were all female, and given our social conditions, girls are obliged to wear Islamic clothing and hijab; due to cultural and social limitations, they cannot participate in open sports activities, even indoors, under the same conditions and situations as boys, which is consistent with the research of Jalili (1369), Abedinzadeh Astaraei (1370), Navabinejad (1372), Jalali (1980), Ehsani (2002), Rawindra and Hoffman (1980), and Surley and Jackson (1985).
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