Commitment in Women's Football Pro League of Iran

The purpose of this study is investigating the effect of sport orientation on sport commitment in Women's Football Pro League of Iran. Research method of this study is correlation. The population of this study consists of all women football players presented in 2th course of match in women football pro league. The sample size of the research is equal to the population size (200 players). The instrument for data collecting consists of Gill and Deeter (1988) sport orientation questionnaire (with 6 items), and Scanlon (1993) sport commitment questionnaire (with 14 item). Validity of questionnaires have been estimated and approved by Ramezan Nezhad (1384) and Fathi (1390) in their researches. In this research, validity of questionnaires was estimated by 10 professional sport management professors, too, and the reliability of the questionnaires were calculated by Choronbachs alpha coefficient (sport orientation alpha=0.90, sport commitment alpha=0.86). In order to verify the normality of data distribution, the Kolmogorov- Smirnov test was used. Data were analyzed by descriptive and inferential tests such as Pearson correlation and simple regression. Result showed that sport orientation has a positive and significant effect on sport commitment.