Factor Analysis of Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats of Gymnastics Federation Of IRAN

The purpose of this study was factor analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of gymnastic Federation of Iran. The statistical population of this study included 160 sport management faculty members, managers and experts of sport organizational who were familiar with gymnastic sport in Iran. 25 elite sport experts were chosen purposely to qualitative samples. And based on Morgan table 117 persons were cluster-randomly selected to quantitative sample. To achieve the study objectives, the list of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats of the gymnastic federation of Iran were provided, and the final list was completed based on Delphi method. Based on the provided list, the researcher-made questioner with 96 questions was distributed among the samples. The validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by experts and the reliability was examined in a pilot study with 30 samples by Cronbachs alpha which was as 0.81. For data analysis the descriptive statistics and inferential statistics methods, including confirmed factor analysis by application of AMOS and SPSS software were used. The findings of the study showed that there are 15 strengths, 21 weaknesses, 9 opportunities, and 4 threats for gymnastic federation of Iran.