An Inquiry into the Impact of Wrestling Sport on Social Correlation in Mazandaran Province's villages: A Case Study of Babol and Jooybar's Villages

The goal of conducting the research is the investigation into the impact of wrestling on the social correlation in Mazandaran province ‘villages. the case studies of Babol and Jooybar‘s villages. The present research has been accomplished by the survey method and documentary and library
methods also have been utilized as complementary ones in order to recognition of the existent position and achieving the social reality. The questionnaire has been used for data collection. 395 persons are the statistical society of the research whom have been selected out of the entire villages of Babol and Jooybar via the Cochran’s sampling method. The statistical society includes 210 men and 185 women. The amount of assurance level has been considered 0.99 in the research. In other words the maximum level of error for testing the hypotheses is 0.01.
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accordance with the findings of the research, the correlation coefficient between wrestling and social correlation is 0.806 which reveals a positive and meaningful relation between these two variables. Therefore it can be concluded that there is a strong relation between sports –specially wrestling – and social correlation in rural society. Considering the intensity of observed correlation, the individuals’ social correlation increases by augmentation in participation and attention to wrestling in area. Also according to respondents, there is a positive and meaningful relation between the impacts of wrestling and holding its competitions at the regional level in dimensions of tourist attraction, physical and spiritual health, increase in social participation, confidence, communication, and understanding.