Designing a communication model of conflict management styles with the success of athletes in Iranian national teams for the deaf

The overall purpose of this study was to investigate the design of a communication model of conflict management styles with the success of athletes in national teams of the Deaf Federation of Iran.The statistical population of the present study consisted of all athletes of the national teams of the Deaf Sports of Iran ,whose number is 220 athletes, and the statistical sample of the study consisted of 150 athletes sent to foreign competitions. In this study were used Robbins Conflict Management Questionnaire (1998) and success of athletes Questionnaire (SSS) used by Mousavi and Vaez mousavi (2015). To analyze the data and prioritize and determine the dominant style of conflict management, Friedman test and to determine the relationship between variables and the impact of each index and variable on other variables while using software (SPSS), the coefficient of significance and effectiveness of software (Smart PLS) was used. Also, software(Smart PLS) was used to design and fit the communication model. The results showed that the coaches of the national teams for the deaf use the non-confrontational style more to manage conflicts and the control style has the least use. Among the dimensions of athletes' success, the dimensions of commitment(5/10) and technique(5/00) had the highest average and after progress(4/29) had the lowest average. There was a positive and significant relationship with the success of athletes (t=3/44، f=0/32 (and no positive and significant relationship was observed between the strategies of non-confrontation (t = 0/02) and control (t = 0/35) with the success of athletes.