Modeling effect of parents’ social support, perceived competence and school climate on pleasure from participation in physical activity of female students

The purpose of present research was to modeling effect of parents’ social support, perceived competence and school climate on pleasure from participation in physical activity of female students. The research method is descriptive correlational type and population of present study consisted of all female secondary high school students (10, 11 and 12) in the Azadshahr city of Golestan province (N=1086), which according to Cochran formula, 248 students were selected as sample size by simple sampling method. For collecting research data, Duncan et al (2005) parents’ social support questionnaire, Xiang et al (2003) perceived competence questionnaire, Anderson (2007) school climate questionnaire and Moore et al (2009) pleasure from participation in physical activity questionnaire were used. Validity of the questionnaires was verified by 5 masters of sport management and internal consistency of questionnaires by using Cronbach's alpha was determined respectively 0.89, 0.91, 0.78 and 0.81. Descriptive and inferential statistics methods were used for data analysis. The results of study showed that parents’ social support, perceived competence and school climate have a positive and significant effect on the pleasure from participation in physical activity of female students. Considering the positive role of parents’ social support, perceived competence and school climate on the pleasure from participation in physical activity of female students: parent participation in physical activity with their daughters, parent support for school sports programs, provide sports programs in schools based on the sporting capabilities of students and creating more opportunities for sports participation of female student recommended.