Study of positive and negative reasons for athletes entering to politics arena

The objective of this study was to evaluate the positive and negative reasons for athletes to politics. Methods of this study was a descriptive, in terms of data collection was survey. The population consisted of talented athletes to politics (N=250), Therefor, 154 professional athletes that have top condition select as sample. Measuring tools were two given questionnaire (11 questions on positive reason and 7 questions on negative reason), formal and content validity of the tools was confirmed by experts, and tools reliability for positive and negative reasons were obtained using Cronbach's alpha of 0.87, 0.84, respectively. Factor analysis, with a varimax rotation was used to analyze the data. According factor analysis, of the 18 Problems, 17 items having appropriate factor loading were stand in 6 factors namely social mechanism, diplomatic mechanism, national idea, national support, social weapon & political weapon. Result showed that social mechanism factors had most important (%24.954 of variance) in explanation of positive reason of athletes entering to politics and social weapon had most important (%12.954 of variance) in explanation of negative reason of entering athletes to politics arena.