abdolreza savar; Farshad Emami; Seyyed Jafar moosavi
Abstract
The purpose of this research was to design the national identity model of the country's sports heroes. The research method was conducted qualitatively using thematic analysis approach. A semi-structured interview was used to collect information and data analysis was done by King et al method. The ...
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The purpose of this research was to design the national identity model of the country's sports heroes. The research method was conducted qualitatively using thematic analysis approach. A semi-structured interview was used to collect information and data analysis was done by King et al method. The participants in the research were physical education professors with a focus on sports management who were familiar with the subject of the research, 13 of whom were purposefully selected and interviewed. After the interview and data collection, open, central and selective coding was used to analyze the data. After the analysis, 158 primary concepts were extracted, and after editing and combining the items that had similar meaning, 32 secondary concepts were extracted as the final concepts. Finally, based on the secondary open codes, five social, political, cultural, religious and historical dimensions were introduced as dimensions of the national identity of the athletes. According to the results of the present research, it can be concluded that the athletes of our country should take steps towards the development and strengthening of the national identity by paying attention to the issues of national identity.