منش ورزشي ورزشكاران نخبه مرد ورزش‌هاي تيمي و انفرادي

Sportspersonship of Individual and Team Sports Elite Male Athletes

Sportspersonship is one of the new terms which gets a lot of attention in sports ethics research nowadays. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the sportspersonship among individual and team sports elite male athletes. For this purpose, 84 elite athletes from individual sports including Wrestling, Tekwaendo, Karate, Weight Lifting, Track and field, Cycling, Boxing, TableTennis, Swimming, Badminton, Gymnastic, Wusho, Bodybuilding and Skating and 78 elite male athletes from team sports including Basketball, Volleyball, Handball and Football completed the MSOS inventory. A pilot study among 45 athletes of Azad University was held which 34 inventory was approved and the coefficient alpha obtained was 0.77. Since after the examining, the distribution was not normal the data was analyzed through non-parametric Mann-Whitney U statistical method. The results stated that athletes involved in individual sports showed higher levels of sportspersonship comparing to those who involved in team sports. Moreover,there found to be no significant diffrence between athletes with sport science academic education and those with other majors of academic education.