A comparison of risk perception among participating sports activities students Male and female student's university of Mazandaran (case study)

The aim study was to compare of risk perception among participating sports activitiesstudents. Samples were selected from a population of university student athletes (girls and boys) participating in educational classes, members of sports teams and athletic programs. The sample size was set up based on all 901 samples in full. Research instrument was a researcher-made questionnaire namely “the Perception of Risk Questionnaire (PRQ)”. Its validity was approved by 11 experts in the field of sport management. Moreover, its reliability was estimated by the Cronbach's alpha of 0.84 in a pilot study. Results from the survey data using Kolmogorov-smirnoff and U-Mann Whitney tests were extracted. The results showed there are significant differences between girls and boys student in risk perception on the criteria of Sensation seeking ,fear of injury, self-confidence and experience. also, no significant difference was observed between girls and boys student on the criteria of injury background Effect and Success Effect in the repetition of risky activities .it indicate the same attitude of boys and girls at the mentioned indexes. Managers of sport organization should be as a perceived attitudes the participants in sports activities, for survival of your organization and also providing safety and health athletes, so this way be removed critical steps to identify the perception student of risk that could leads to lack of their participation in sport activity.