Document Type : Research Paper
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PhD Candidate on Sport Management, Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
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Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Physical Education and Sports Science, Najafabad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Najafabad, Iran.
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Associate Professor on Sport Management in General Course Department, School Management & Medical Informatics, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan , Iran.
10.22084/smms.2021.24740.2915
Abstract
The aim of present study examined the process of high-risk behaviors of student-athletes of Hamedan. The present research is methodologically qualitative, and among the methods available in qualitative research, narrative analysis has been used in order to discover the processes that lead to high-risk behaviors among Hamedan student-athletes. This analysis helps to identify and record the lives of these students end up in dangerous behaviors derive a process model. Participants in this study were male student-athletes of the first year of high school in Hamadan who had a disciplinary case in the disciplinary committee of the Hamedan Education Organization. These individuals were purposefully selected and the data reached theoretical saturation after 21 interviews. To collect data in this study used Semi-structured interview tool and to evaluate the validity of the findings was used criteria Skinner et al (2014). Also, to analyze the data, use the coding process based on the narrative research guidelines of Brown and Clark (2006) who gave the narrative research as a thematic analysis and proposed a thematic analysis approach to analyze that information. Findings showed that the occurrence of high-risk behaviors of student-athletes is a function of 50 primary concepts, 9 sub-themes and 2 main themes. According to the research results, some of these factors belong to the system within the family and others are subject to external conditions and situations that the participants in the research believe have played a role in the formation of high-risk behaviors.
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