Construction, Validity and Reliability of the Questionnaire of Factors Affecting the Tendency of People to Physical Activity in Parks

The study is to validate the questionnaire of affecting factors on people's tendency to sports activity in Parks. The statistical population consisted of users of Isfahan sport parks for sport activities. The sample size was 450 and the sampling method was clustering. The questionnaire was a researcher-made questionnaire and was taken from interviews with participants in park activities. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was measured by sport management experts, exploratory factor analysis for factor extraction, Cronbach's alpha tests for reliability of questionnaire and confirmatory factor analysis for construct validity in SPSS and AMOS software. The results of exploratory factor analysis showed 14 factors affecting the people's tendency to sports activity in Parks: sports institutionalization, sport training, need for sports equipment and places, the quality of sports places, quality and installation of sports equipment and devices, women's sports environments and places, development of sports facilities in the park, development of side facilities and amenities of the park, financing, general motivation, oral advertising, informing the public, mental and security. Confirmatory factor analysis results also showed that all questions were of appropriate and acceptable factor loading. The fitting indices of the confirmatory factor analysis model also confirmed the fit of the model. Given that the present questionnaire is validated among the citizens of the country, it is recommended that researchers in future research use the approved questionnaire of the present study to investigate the factors affecting people's tendency to sport activity in parks in different cities and provinces of the country.