Management and Entrepreneurship in Sport

Management and Entrepreneurship in Sport

The tendency of citizens to exercise in the morning and its obstacles

Document Type : Original Article

Authors
Khodayar Momeni 1
Ayman Raad Fares 2
forough mohammadi 3
1 Assistant Professor of Sport Management Department of Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch
2 Islamic Azad University
3 Assistant Professor of Sport Management Department of Islamic Azad University, South Tehran Branch
10.48301/jmes.2023.170884
Abstract
This research was conducted with the aim of investigating the attitude of citizens of Salahuddin province of Iraq towards morning exercise and its obstacles. The research method was descriptive-survey. The statistical population of the research included all the citizens of Salah al-Din province in 1401, 384 people were selected as samples from the cities of Samarra and Tikrit by cluster sampling. A researcher-made questionnaire with 40 items was used to collect information, and its validity and reliability were confirmed. To analyze the data, Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, Levin's test and T-test were used in Spss22 software. According to the results, economic barriers, legal barriers, infrastructural barriers, personal barriers, and environmental barriers were influential in the tendency of the citizens of Salahuddin province to exercise in the morning. The component of "Legal Obstacles" with an average rating of (2.28) was the lowest and "Environmental Obstacles" with an average rating of (3.74) had the greatest impact on the tendency of the citizens of Salahuddin province to exercise in the morning. Based on the results obtained from this research, it can be said that removing the obstacles can help the development of morning exercise among the citizens of Salahuddin province
Keywords
morning exercise
environmental barriers
infrastructural barriers
individual barriers
legal barriers
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Management and Entrepreneurship in Sport
Volume 1, Issue 1
Autumn and Winter
March 2023
Pages 189-203