Identification and Prioritization of Bio-psychosocial Factors affecting Sport Participation of Elderly Man in Tehran by Using Hierarchical Analysis Group (GAHP)

Everyone can expect a healthy aging and it emphasize the concept of aging and the prevention consequential problem. Sporting participation plays a critical role in establishing a mental and physical balance to pass the aging period. Due to population growth in recent as well as reaching at a higher life expectancy we are going to have a big number of aged people in country. To have happy society to enjoy suitable health factor it is quite necessary to conduct well-objectified research about the sporting participators of aged people. This research aim at presenting a conceptual a model for recognizing main dimension of sporting participation of aged people. Alongside will studying the importance of each one of the factors. Therefore reading the previous research. Thirty-tow influence of influential variables was readied. Then, the first questionnaire was distributed among the university teaches athletes and sport experts to identify nineteen relevant variable affecting sporting participation of aged people. In the next step the second questionnaire was distributed among male aged athletes of Tehran; the data was collected and in order to identify main affecting factors, the factor analysis statistical model was used. Furthermore, to prioritize the variable, the third questionnaire including paired computing table were prepared and the outcome data was recognized by GAHP method.