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Identifying and Ranking the Obstacles to the Development of Sports for All in the Neighborhoods of Arak City
Ezatollah Shahmansouri 1, Esfandiar Khosravizadeh2 , Bita Arasti3
1- Islamic Azad University, Arak, Iran , et.shahmansoori@gmail.com
2- Arak University
3- Sports and Youth of Markazi Province,Arak
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 The rapid growth of urbanization in line with fundamental changes in urban lifestyle affected by the capitalist system and new technologies has led to the rise and emergence of numerous urbanization problems and increasing psychological and physical pressures on citizens. One of the places that have been severely affected by these developments is the urban neighborhood system. The purpose of this study was to identify and rank barriers to Sports for All development in the neighborhoods of Arak city. The research method was descriptive-analytical and the statistical population in the qualitative section included: experts (15 people) and in the quantitative section, included: all participants inside Sports for All city of Arak (450 people). In the quantitative part, 207 people were selected as available and in the qualitative part of the whole statistical population as a sample. The data collection tool was a questionnaire which was prepared using a mixed method. To evaluate the content validity of the questionnaire quantitatively, two relative content validity coefficients and content validity index were used. Confirmatory factor analysis; t-test and Friedman test were used to analyze the statistical data. Information obtained using "SPSS" software. Version 24 and LISREL were analyzed. The results showed that, the seven factors that were identified as obstacles to the development of neighborhood sports have an effective and significant role in the lack of neighborhood sports development. These factors are in order of priority as follows: infrastructure, management, facilities and equipment, socio-cultural, budget-credit, environmental-welfare and finally access. The general result of the research indicates that proper management for exploiting the current situation is not done and the focus and attention is on hold  sometimes morning and evening sports, in some of the main parks of the city.
Keywords: Barriers of Sport for All. Neighborhood-based sports, Neighborhood parks.
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