Document Type : Original research study
Authors
1 Phd Student of Sport Management, Razi University
2 Assistant Professor, Razi University
3 Associate Professor, Razi University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was development of model for spectators’ Attitude to Persian Gulf League. The statistical population in this research were physical education student in Ferdosi and Azad university in Mashhad. The sample of this study was 350 students were selected with random selection procedure . To evaluate the spectators’ perspective was used Schnitzer et al. (2014) and Brown (2016) questionnaires with a reliability of 0.81. Its face and content validity were confirmed by sports management and its validity was tested by confirmatory factor analysis. To analyse the data was used descriptive and inferential statistics including correlation coefficients and SEM analysis in SPSS 21 and AMOS software. The results showed that six factors including being fun, contribute to the development, professionalism, knowledge of the rules, interest in football and positive emotions, was effected on audience Football in Persian Gulf League.
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