The Relationship between Social Identification and Sport Participation amongst Staff of Developmental and Maintenance of Sports in Iran

Social identification determined as one of the imperative factor that specialized one society from the one. In fact, this factor has been impacted by various items such as sport participation and appears comprehensively. Sport participation has considerable influence on health of society and conducts individuals’ identification in different ways. The present study focused on the relationship between social identification and sport participation amongst 270 staff who are working on developmental and maintenance of sports in Iran. The data has been got based on Social Identification survey, and Participation Motivation Questionnaire (PMQ) (Gill, Gross, Huddleston, 1983; Safarinia, Aghayousefi, Mostafaei, 2014). The results showed that the staff’ sport participation as independent variable linked with social identification; In other words, sport participation of staff at workplace has substantial role on sport identification that appeared as dependent variable in this survey. The staff who considered on team working as participation and supply this main factor on their daily life shown better social identification and performance.