Investigating the factors hindering the sports participation of high school girls (Case study: Southern cities of East Azerbaijan province)

The aim of this study is to determine the barriers to sports participation of high school girls. The present study is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of nature. The statistical population is all high school girls in the southern cities of East Azarbaijan province (4782 people). The statistical sample size was estimated to be 381 using the Cochran's formula. Data collection tools are library studies and questionnaires. The questionnaire used consists of two parts. The first part is the information of the population population and the second part is the standard questionnaire of the sports participation of the students of Dehim (2011). Data analysis was performed using Spss21 software for descriptive and inferential statistics. In the descriptive statistics section, demographic and analytical data were used, in the inferential statistics section, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to determine the normality of the statistical population and the T-test was used to test the hypotheses and Friedmann test was used to prioritize the factors. The results of inferential statistics showed that economic factors, socio-cultural factors, physical factors and psychological factors affect the participation of female students in sports activities; And economic factors are most important. As a result, girls face a number of deterrents to participating in sports. Therefore, it is necessary to plan and organize carefully in the field of promoting and expanding physical education and sports in society, especially among girls, and to adopt effective strategies to increase the motivation to participate in sports activities for girls.