Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Karaj Azad University
2 Department of Sports Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
3 Associate Professor, Department of Sport Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
4 Professor of Department of Sport Management, Karaj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Karaj, Iran
Abstract
The dispersal and large number of past researches about the participation of students in sports activities has caused the policy makers and planners to not be able to master all aspects of this field for policy making and planning. For this reason, the factors and obstacles affecting the participation of Iranian students in sports activities were meta-analyzed in Iranian society. The statistical population of this research consists of available studies that were available in the form of dissertations and full-text articles in the databases and libraries of universities across the country between 2006 and 2021. They gave These studies were selected purposefully and based on the inclusion and exclusion criteria as well as the sensitivity analysis of 101 effect sizes from 22 studies. The results of the combined effect size for both the random effects model and the fixed effects model were equal to 0.35. The findings showed that during the years 2012 to 2015, the most research has been done in this field, social factors have been the most frequently investigated variable in the field of student participation in sports activities, in the discussion of the effective factors of the physical activity index, Trust within the family and psychological capital, and in the discussion of effective barriers, parents' attitudes towards girls' sports are among the most important variables, and in most cases, the findings of past research were confirmed and in some cases, they were violated.
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