Reza Abdollahi Godollo; Seyyed Mohammad Kashef; Roghayeh sarlab
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Objective: The purpose of this research was to design a model of factors influencing psychological terror management among physical education teachers in West Azerbaijan Province.
Methodology: This research employed a qualitative approach and utilized the Grounded Theory method. The study's statistical ...
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Objective: The purpose of this research was to design a model of factors influencing psychological terror management among physical education teachers in West Azerbaijan Province.
Methodology: This research employed a qualitative approach and utilized the Grounded Theory method. The study's statistical population included all physical education teachers in West Azerbaijan Province. Among them, 18 expert and elite physical education teachers were selected using purposive and snowball sampling methods until theoretical saturation was achieved. The data collection tool consisted of semi-structured interviews. To examine the reliability of the data, the test-retest method and two coders' reliability were used. To assess the validity of the data, member checking, triangulation, peer examination, and credibility strategies were employed.
Results: The results of the research, through three stages of open, axial, and selective coding, indicated the extraction of 45 final codes and 17 concepts, within a conceptual model, causal factors (conflictual, individual, organizational, political, and power groups, managerial, cultural), contextual factors (livelihood and economic, social, educational system), intervening conditions (environmental factors, legal void in dealing with psychological terror), the central category (Workplace psychological terror), strategies (coping and prevention), and outcomes (individual, organizational, and social) were categorized that organizational mobbing explained the situation of physical education teachers and showed the relationships between them.
Conclusion: Psychological terror exists among teachers and is an inevitable phenomenon. Therefore, the results of this research can serve as a guide for human resource planners, especially educational managers, to identify and recognize disruptive behaviors in the work environment, to recognize how to deal with and manage the phenomenon of psychological terror, and to reduce its effects, and take adequate measures.
Mozhde Najafi Nalivan; Roghayeh sarlab; Mohsen Behnam
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between self-determination theory and participation and perfectionism with the moderating role of creativity in athletes of Urmia city.
Methodology: The current research work was applied, and descriptive-survey and field research. ...
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Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between self-determination theory and participation and perfectionism with the moderating role of creativity in athletes of Urmia city.
Methodology: The current research work was applied, and descriptive-survey and field research. The statistical population was the volleyball athletes of Urmia city, which in 2022-2023 equaled 1216 people. A statistical sample of 293 people was selected by the multi-stage cluster random method. Questionnaire research instrumentations; perfectionism (Gutwalls and Dunn, 2009), creativity (Di Lillo and Houghton, 2008), participation (Lonsdale, Hodge and Jackson, 2007), autonomy (provision of basic needs) (Lonsdale and Hodge, 2011), and failure to provide basic needs in sports (Bartholomew et al., 2011) they were. Reliability of questionnaires with Cronbach's alpha, respectively, were 0.75, 0.79, 0.76, 0.98, 0.79 were estimated. Data analysis by structural equation modeling method with the softwares SPSS V25 and Smart-PLS3.2.8 were performed.
Results: The research results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between need fulfillment and lack of need fulfillment with participation and perfectionism in athletes, and there is a positive and significant relationship between creativity and participation in athletes, but between creativity and perfectionism, there is no significant relationship. Also creativity plays a moderating role in the relationship between meeting needs and not meeting needs with participation in sports, but it does not play a moderating role in the relationship between meeting needs and not meeting needs with perfectionism in sports.
Conclusion: By paying attention to providing basic needs and also providing conditions for the flourishing of creativity of volleyball players, it is possible to improve their level of perfectionism and sports participation.
