Determining Factors of the Talent Detection Process: An Exploratory Study on Combat Athletes

Evaluating the sporting talents to take advantage of their potential is a necessity for every sport's instructor and practitioner. Therefore, the study is to determine the factors of the talent process as an exploratory study in combat athletes. The method of this research was exploratory and of type of modeling. The statistical population of this study consisted of managers of federations, sports heroes and active experts in the field of martial arts bullying in middle ages of 2005 to 1393. Based on a targeted sampling, 200 people (142 males, 58 females) completed a researcher-made questionnaire of talent identification. Exploratory Factor Analysis showed that the questionnaire of talent identification factors in martial athletes had a fourfold structure (talent discovery, talent identification, selection, selection, and application), which explains 54.92% of the variance of the tool. In addition, the confirmatory factor analysis also showed that the model for determining the factors of the process of scalability is of desirable fit (RMSEA = 0/09, GFI = 0/09, CFI = 0/9). Also, the internal consistency of the questionnaire of the process of apostasy was obtained by Cronbach's alpha (0/87), indicating the satisfactory internal consistency of this tool. Therefore, in order to identify the factors involved in the process of talent identification, a questionnaire of the process of identification can be used.