The role of professional ethics and social responsibility on athletes' satisfaction

The purpose of this study was the effect of professional ethics and social responsibility on athletes' satisfaction, which in terms of practical purpose and methodological, descriptive-survey of correlation. The statistical population of the study included selected athletes working in the country's sports clubs in individual disciplines of wrestling, karate, taekwondo and team disciplines of volleyball, basketball, and handball (592 athletes) who competed in 1397. Simple probabilistic random sampling was selected. To collect research data from Kadozir (2002) Professional Ethics Questionnaire with 16 items that have 8 dimensions of responsibility, honesty, justice and fairness, loyalty, competitiveness, respect for others, empathy with Others, respect for social values ​​and norms. Carol (1991) with 25 questions in 4 dimensions of ethics, legal dimension, humanitarian dimension and economic dimension and satisfaction of athletes Barimer and Chaladorli (1988) with 14 questions. To analyze the data obtained from the research, the partial least squares method was used with Smart pls software version 2.8 / 3. Findings showed that professional ethics has a positive and significant effect on social responsibility (t=β, 8.736=0,449) the effect of professional ethics on athletes' satisfaction was positive and significant (t=β, 3.803=0,141). Findings showed that social responsibility has a significant effect on athletes' satisfaction (t=β, 23.340=0,735). Finally, the effect of professional ethics on athletes' satisfaction with the mediating role of social responsibility was confirmed (t=β, 8.082=0,700). According to the research results, it can be concluded that the managers of the country's clubs can use the social responsibility activities of their athletes in order to promote a desirable organizational behavior and increase the satisfaction of athletes in order to achieve positive results in the clubs.  "According to the authors of this article, there was no conflict of interest."