The Effect of Sport Friendship Quality on Sport Enjoyment and Commitment of Soccer Player Adolescents

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of sport friendship quality on sport enjoyment and commitment of Soccer player adolescents. The sample of this study consisted of 134 adolescent (12 – 16 year) that participated in Shahrood Soccer schools in summer of 1392. Sport friendship Quality، Sport Enjoyment and Commitment questionnaires were used to collect the data. Findings indicated that sport friendship quality and relationship conflict have significant effect on sport enjoyment but don’t show significant effect on sport commitment. The section of total effect indicated that the largest effect on sport enjoyment was related to relationship conflict، and the largest effect on sport commitment was related to sport enjoyment. Endogenous Variables’ R-Square indicated that %10 of sport enjoyment variance by sport friendship quality and relationship conflict، and %70 of sport commitment variance by sport friendship quality، relationship conflict and sport enjoyment is predictable. Also، the Model showed a good fit to the data.