M.A. Thesis:

Comparing the tendencies of sport appearances of women and men participating in sports and examining their relationship with sporting behavior

The aim: One of the essential challenges in sport psychology is identifying the effective factors on sport behaviors in order to increase people’s taking part in sport for all. The role of sport self-presentation as a factor for affecting people’s motivation in order to increase their sport behavior in sport for all is still obscure. Therefore, the aim of the present study is to compare men and women’s sport self-presentation tendencies who participate in sport for all and also investigating its relation with sport behavior. Method: The present study has a practical aim and a descriptive method for controlling variables. The statistical population for this study includes men and women (older than 30 years old) who participated in sport for all in the city of Sabzevar, among them around 150 people were volunteer to participate in our research. The applied tools for collecting data include two questionnaires which are “sport self-presentation questionnaire of Conroy et al (2000)” and “sport behavior questionnaire of Longbottom et al (2012)” respectively. Analyzing data was executed by SPSS 23 software using “Independent T-test” and “Pearson Correlation Coefficient”. The findings of the present study indicated that there is no big difference between men and women in the amount of sport self-presentation tendencies and its components (motivational and structural). Furthermore, there is no meaningful relation between sport self-presentation and its components with participants’ sport behavior in sport for all (P05/0?). So we can say that the reason of participation of middle-aged and old people in sport for all, based on their age, is possibly increasing their wellbeing, weight control and other factors which are related to being healthy, and the sport behavior, in other words the amount and quality of participation of these people in sport for all, do not have any relation to their self-presentation tendencies

Keywords: self presentation sportfor all sport behavior