Investigation into the Reasons Why Women Supporters Do Not Watch Football Matches in Stadiums Cover Image

Bayan Taraftarların Stadyumlarda Futbol Maçı Seyretmemelerine Neden Olan Etmenlerin Araştırılması
Investigation into the Reasons Why Women Supporters Do Not Watch Football Matches in Stadiums

Author(s): Fatih Çemrek
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Applied Sociology, Social differentiation, Sports Studies
Published by: Kafkas Üniversitesi Sağlık, Kültür ve Spor Daire Başkanlığı Dijital Baskı Merkezi
Keywords: football supporter; reasons for not watching football match in stadiums; female supporter; factor analysis;

Summary/Abstract: In this study, it was tried to investigate the reasons why women supporters do not watch football matches in stadiums. To serve the aim, a 36- item questionnaire with five poit Likert- type questions was prepared. Some of the items in the questionnaire were later excluded from the survey, and remaining 24 items were used. Participants were chosen using a simple random sampling method, and randomly selected 300 women aged 15 and over and living in Eskişehir in May 10- 25, 2013 participated in the study. The reliability coefficient of the questionnaire was found to be 0.832. This result indicates that the survey was reliable. It was applied to the obtained data with the factor analysis. As a result of factor analysis, 24 items were collected at the rate of 7 factors, and variance explanations were determined as 66.1%. According to the Kaiser- Meyer- Olkin value criteria used to evaluate sample adequacy, KMO value was calculated as 0.792. For Barlett sphericity test employed to study the suitability of data for factor analysis, the value of the test statistic was defined as 2670.220 (p <0.01).

  • Issue Year: 6/2015
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 317 - 334
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Turkish
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