The relationship between sports attachment and sports orientation in recreational-sports clubs

This study investigated the relationship between sports attachment and sports orientation in recreational-sports clubs. The present research is applied in terms of purpose and method of collecting descriptive-survey information and is of correlation type. The process of data collection was also field. The population of this study was ۴۸۰ athletes who were selected as a sample using a simple random sampling method. The standard sports attachment questionnaire (Gail ۱۹۹۳) and sports orientation questionnaire (Kyle et al., ۲۰۰۵) were used for data collection. In order to analyze the data, descriptive statistics (center orientation and dispersion indices) and the Pearson correlation coefficient test was used to determine the relationship between variables using SPSS software version ۲۴. The Pearson correlation test results showed a significant positive relationship between sports attachment and sport orientation with its dimensions of competitiveness, victory and goal orientation sports attachment. According to the research results, it can be said that the managers of sports clubs, per the components of attachment and orientation by holding domestic or foreign competitions, pay special attention to the need for competition, victory and goal-orientation of users.