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Sardar Mohammadi

Sardar Mohammadi

Academic rank: Professor
ORCID: 0000-0001-7078-956X
Education: PhD.
ScopusId: 54585661200
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Faculty: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Research

Title
an Investigation into the Familiarity of Physical Education Experts with Historical, Social and Cultural Aspects of Olympic Games
Type
JournalPaper
Keywords
Physical education experts, Olympic Games, Sport managers
Year
2014
Journal Sports Management International Journal
DOI
Researchers Sardar Mohammadi ، seed iman gafari sadr ، Nasim Salehi

Abstract

purpose of this study was to survey An Investigation into the Familiarity of Physical Education Experts with Historical, Social and Cultural Aspects of Olympic Games. 120 of the physical education experts (The members of physical education, the managers of the Ministry of Sport and Youth, The managers of physical education in the Ministry of Education) answered to a researcher made questionnaire on familiarity with different aspects of Olympic Games in order to determine their familiarity with historical, cultural and social aspects of Olympic. The mentioned questionnaire (15 social questions, 14 historical questions, 11 cultural questions) was constructed through a guide study and making subsequent revisions and editions. The opinions of the scope of experts were used in order to determine face and content validity and chronbach’s a was used in order to determine the reliability of the questionnaire. Appropriate descriptive and inferential statistics (ANOVA oneway, MANOVA and the Scheffe Hoc test) were used. The findings demonstrated that the viewpoints of the members of the physical education were significantly different from those of the other two groups. The Scheffe Hoc test also demonstrated a significant difference between the ideas of the physical education members and those of the other two groups. The superiority of the physical education members in social part consisting of questions involving nationalism, Doping, professional sport, advertisement, commercialism, multimedia and communications was not due to their knowledge of Olympic chart but their involvement with these subjects in the society. Their superiority in historical questions was owing to the role of multimedia in covering the news and increasing the knowledge of the people in this respect. One of the reasons for the superiority of the physical education members in cultural section was that the addressees of multimedia got information on medals more than the cultural ceremonies of the games. In