Explaining the Role and Process of Peace Awareness in Athletes (National Security Approach)

The aim of this study was to quantitatively analyze the role of sports in the process of peace awareness and the methods of achieving it as one of the effective factors in national security. Therefore, in ten sports, wrestling, karate, judo, boxing, taekwondo, gymnastics, volleyball, golf, tennis and skiing, the views and awareness of Olympic nationals have been investigated. In this research, survey method or what Miller called specific interview was used. Due to the presence of covid-19 disease and its epidemic, the statistical sample was selected by the available method in the first half of 2018 along with notification to the federation from the set of sports disciplines and in the age group of 19 to 32 years old from all disciplines. and a maximum of 30 people in each field of choice, with a total of 204 questionnaires that could be evaluated. Examining the results of the factor analysis and the factor loadings of the questions related to the components shows that seven indicators have been confirmed for the component of peace awareness and the result of dividing the variable by chi square the degree of freedom is equal to 2.60, which is acceptable compared to the critical value. The root mean square variable of the estimation error in this model is equal to 0.057, which is its permissible limit. The result of the investigation showed the specific situation of the sports field (team and individual, and violent and non-violent, etc.)