The Role Of Socio-Cultural Factors In Predicting Sports Participation: Mediating Role Of Sports Spirituality

Abstract

The sports participation is complex phenomenon influenced by various socio-cultural factors and understanding these influences, specially within context of Pakistani educational institutions, is vital for developing strategies to promote sports engagement among students. This study aims to explore role of socio-cultural factors used in predicting sports participation among students in Federal Government Colleges, Islamabad, Pakistan. Moreover, it investigates the mediating role of sports spirituality in this relationship in order to examine the direct and indirect relationships among the predictors, mediator and criterion variables of study that [1]are chosen from the existing literature, to examine these variables in native environment and produce new information thereby contributing the existing knowledge. A cross-sectional survey design was used to collect data from sample from FGC in Islamabad. The participants were done over structured questionnaire measuring the socio-cultural factors, sports spirituality, and sports participations. The diverse statistical procedures were to analyze the data and test the hypothesized relationships to produce innovative information. The results provide significant outcomes about association and mediation and thus certain recommendations have been extracted for policy makers and future researchers for better understandings.