Open AccessGender differences in athletes’ attitudes and familiarity with drugs and unauthorized training methods
Author(s) -
Mohammad Saeed Kiani,
Keivan Shabani Moghaddam
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international journal of sport, exercise and health research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2581-4923
DOI - 10.31254/sportmed.3207
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , statistics , athletes , test (biology) , statistical population , psychology , descriptive statistics , sample (material) , normality , data collection , population , reliability (semiconductor) , face validity , simple random sample , cluster sampling , normality test , clinical psychology , applied psychology , mathematics , statistical hypothesis testing , medicine , physical therapy , psychometrics , environmental health , paleontology , power (physics) , chemistry , physics , chromatography , quantum mechanics , biology
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the differences between men and women regarding the level of familiarity with unauthorized drugs. A 40-question researcher-made questionnaire was used for data collection. The face and content validity of the questionnaire was confirmed by a survey of professors related to the research subject and its reliability was reported to be 0.79 using Cronbach's alpha. The statistical population of the study consisted of all athletes in Kermanshah province. Due to the large number of samples, cluster random sampling method was used. Finally, 700 questionnaires were returned, out of which 431 were used. Data were analyzed using SPSS software. Descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation, percentage, tables, graphs, etc.) for analysis of data as well as inferential statistics (one-sample t-test, independent sample t-test and variance analysis) and Kolmogorov-Smirnov test was used to determine the normality of the data distribution. The results showed that there was no significant difference between the two groups in terms of familiarity with unauthorized drugs. As a result, men are less familiar with unauthorized drugs than women