Sport Management
Ahmad Rajabi; seyed mohammad kashef; mohsen behnam
Abstract
With the global promotion of football as a popular sport, the study of football fans has attracted more attention as a research field. The present study aimed to examine and determine the factors influencing the formation of club football fans' identification. This research, using the Psychological Continuum ...
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With the global promotion of football as a popular sport, the study of football fans has attracted more attention as a research field. The present study aimed to examine and determine the factors influencing the formation of club football fans' identification. This research, using the Psychological Continuum Model, seeks to comprehensively investigate all factors affecting the identification formation of Iranian football club fans. For this purpose, semi-structured in-depth interviews were conducted with 27 football fans. Given the qualitative approach of the present research and the use of content analysis, coding was performed at three levels, including open coding, axial coding, and selective coding. Ultimately, 17 unique categories emerged as influential factors on fan identification in the four-level Psychological Continuum Model. These factors at the awareness level included team identity card, sociability factors, media, place and geography, football engagement, football leisure time, and demographic factors. The influential factors at the attraction level comprised football competitive elements, personal inclinations, and collectivism and social integration. Professional club factors, fan technicality, economic participation, and emotional involvement were influential at the attachment level, and ultimately, the loyalty phase included team-centered elements, football insight, and football culture. The present research demonstrated that most influential factors on identification formation occur at the awareness level and as fans move towards the loyalty level within the Psychological Continuum Model, the number of influential factors decreases, while the specialized football inclination increases.
Mehrdad Moharramzadeh; Hooshyar Fattahi; Seyed Mohammad Kashef
Volume 3, Issue 2 , July 2016, , Pages 21-30
Abstract
This study aimed to investigate the effect of servant leadership on intellectual capital; test the role of mediator organizational socialization Is done. The research method was descriptive and co relational study, structural equation modeling. Statistical population included all male and female employees ...
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This study aimed to investigate the effect of servant leadership on intellectual capital; test the role of mediator organizational socialization Is done. The research method was descriptive and co relational study, structural equation modeling. Statistical population included all male and female employees in the departments of Youth and Sports in Western Azerbaijan province is 219 that by using sampling method purposefully non-random statistical sample 196 persons as sample were select for study. For gathering data, three standard questionnaires Servant leadership, intellectual capital and socialization were used. Research data after collecting by using statistical software LISREL, SPSS were analyzed. Results of Structural equation modeling showed that the direct effect of servant leadership (0/35) and organizational socialization (0/47) on intellectual capital at the level of 0/001is positive and significant. The direct effect of servant leadership (0/69) on organizational socialization at level of 0/001 is positive and significant. Indirect effect of servant leadership on intellectual capital with role of mediator organizational socialization (0/30) at level of 0/001 is positive and significant
