Nahideh Jabbari; seyyed Mehdi aghapour; rahim ramzaninejad
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Objective: The purpose of current study was to develop a pattern of women’s conceptual thinking about corporal aesthetic in sport clubs.Methodology: It was qualitative research based on Grounded Theory. To collect data, semi-structured interview was used. Data was analyzed through Grounded Theory ...
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Objective: The purpose of current study was to develop a pattern of women’s conceptual thinking about corporal aesthetic in sport clubs.Methodology: It was qualitative research based on Grounded Theory. To collect data, semi-structured interview was used. Data was analyzed through Grounded Theory (Strauss and Corbin 1998 Approach) and presented in term of paradigm. Sampling was based on theoretical one and purposive (judgment) and snowball (chain) techniques were considered. To this end, we interviewed with 50 customers of sport clubs in Tehran.Results: Results showed that marriage opportunity, relationship with opposite sex, determinism, attracting attention in virtual space, social changes in erotic capital, fashionism and generation gap were recognized as causal conditions. Intervention conditions were role strain, social comparison, social tagging phobia and awareness of others’ judgment. Emotion suppression, media and simulation of others were found as context conditions. Women’s covering management, extracting people’s opinion and behavioral expression were strategies. Ethical and cultural consequences, mental aspect, and socioeconomic consequences were all the consequences. Finally, individual achievement, appearance beauty, attracting attention in social environments were the main phenomena.Conclusion: Among women, the dominant culture of body image is based on fashion and media where the commercializing and consumerism are the core of body concept. According to results, it is proposed to reconsider the components to develop women’s conceptual thinking about corporal aesthetic through view of health orientation.
Ehsan Mohamadi torkamani; Mohammad Mahdi Rahmati; Behnam Naghi-Pour Givi; Reza Sharbatzadeh
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Objective: Nowadays, lifestyle is an effective concept for studying the facts of life of different people. Elite athletes are always one of the most important groups in societies that their lifestyle is of interest to all. Studying the elite athletes’ lifestyles requires a valid and reliable tool. ...
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Objective: Nowadays, lifestyle is an effective concept for studying the facts of life of different people. Elite athletes are always one of the most important groups in societies that their lifestyle is of interest to all. Studying the elite athletes’ lifestyles requires a valid and reliable tool. Therefore, the aim of this study was to construct and validate Elite Athletes Lifestyle Questionnaire. Methodology: The study was mix method that in qualitative phase for identifying lifestyle indicators 19 experts selected for deep unstructured interview in targeted sampling. Qualitative data was analyzed using the Glaser approach of grounded theory and its validity was verified by 10 experts. The statistical population of the quantitative phase was all of the athletes in premier League of football, futsal, volleyball and basketball that 308 of them completed the researcher-made questionnaire in stratified random sampling. Data were analyzed using confirmatory factor analysis and Fitting Model Indexes were confirmed after correction of some questions. Results: The results showed the Iranian elite athletes’ lifestyle tool has 10 dimensions include Responsibility, Financial Literacy, Leisure, Professional Thinking, Life Vision, Emotional Competencies, Consumption, Cultural Consumption, Religious Behavior and individual Issues. Also, the reliability of sub scales was confirmed using Cronbach's alpha coefficient and for the whole scale of 0.89. Conclusion: Due to the results the designed tool, has a good validity and reliability and can be used to study the distinctions of elite athletes lifestyles.
