Influence of Iranian Professional Soccer Players Ideology on their Ethical Decision-Making

The purpose of current study was a survey on influence of Iranian professional soccer players ideology on their ethical decision-making. For this purpose, Ethical Position in Professional Soccer Questionnaire (EPPSQ) with 15 questions and Dilemmas in Professional Soccer Questionnaire (DPSQ) with 28 questions developed by Shajie et al. (2013) were employed and randomly administered to 162 Iranian premier league soccer players from Rahahan, Naft Tehran, Shahid Sepasi, Foolad Khoozestan, Shahin Booshehr, Sepahan Esfahan, Malavan Anzali, Naft Abadan, Peykan Tehran, Pas Hamedan, Alominium Hormozgan teams. The content validity of instrument was confirmed by experts and the internal consistency of the DPSQ and EPPSQ proved in a pilot study. The data were analyzed by employing ANOVA and Path analysis tests. Results showed that ethical ideology has significant influence on ethical decision-making variance of players and idealism subscale plays a significant role in this matter. Therefore, the roles of coaches and soccer club managers are very important and improvement of attitude and ethical knowledge within players may solve the ethical problems of Iranian soccer for ever and basically, also without legal pressures.