The Relationship Between Athletic Identity with Fear of Failure and fail of Soccer Clubs Players:The Mediating Role of Moral Intelligence

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sports identity and fear of failure of football club players mediated by moral intelligence. This research was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of this study was 255 football players of Birjand League sports clubs. instruments included the Moral Intelligence , the Performance Fear Assessment,, the Failure, and the Sports Identity Questionnaire. modeling method with a path analysis approach was used.The results showed that sports identity has a significant effect on fear of failure through the mediating variable of moral intelligence. Also, the analysis of the direct effects of the predictor variable on the criterion variables showed that sports identity has a negative effect on fear of failure. It was described that the effect of this effect on the feeling of failure was significant but was not significant on the variable of fear of failure . The results showed that the effects of total sports identity through the mediating variable of moral intelligence on fear of failure and failure were negative and significant.

Therefore, the results confirmed the important and decisive mediating role of moral intelligence in the relationship between the two variables of sports identity with fear of failure in football players. Therefore, strengthening moral values and, consequently, increasing moral intelligence, causes the athlete to understand more about his sports identity, and as a result, reduces his fear of failure. .