Role of Sports in Promotion of Patriotic Sense

The study is to examine the role of sport in promotion of patriotic sense that has been done in exploratory mixed method in Khuzestan province. In order to identify the role of sport in the first part of the research, semi structured qualitative interviews with experts was used and based on achieved results, the conceptual model of research was designed and sport role's questionnaire was designed. After confirmation of its validation, in second section (quantities' section), conceptual model of research was examined. Statistical population of this research was all individuals living in Khuzestan Province between 15 to 65 years old (N = 4853000). 400 questionnaires in five cluster of Khuzestan province were distributed and at all 322 questionnaires of them were used for analysis. Structural equation was used for data analysis. Findings showed the effect of sport on patriotic sense. Four factors were identified as sport's roles which included presence, performance, and atmosphere and participate in managing sport events and among these factors, the atmosphere around sport events played greater roles. Research findings express the social capacity of sport can have valuable achievements for our country.