A Consideration of Behavioral Abnormalities in Spectators in Iran-Based Basketball Super League

Abstract

Sport competitions shall put athletes and spectators in situations wherein the conditions, rules and norms might be easily violated leading to aggressive confrontations and violence. This study tries to consider behavioral abnormalities among sports spectators in order to identify variables components through function analysis in the spectators and the most considerable variable leading to adverse behavior in them.This research is a descriptive survey, in which the behavioral abnormalities in the spectators of super league basketball has been studied. To this end, a researcher-made questionnaire conducted for data collection. Also, Statistical population was spectators of basketball including the Mahram (Tehran) and Sabamhr (Qazvin). The two teams in the semi-final matches in the basketball league in 2009 were examined. Here, we used random sampling method and the number of samples was 45 and 43 fans of Mahram and Sabamhr, respectively. These questionnaires included 51 questions which the validity was confirmed by experts and its reliability was Cronbach alpha coefficient of 81. In addition, KS, SPSS software and Pearson correlation tests were used for data analysis. According to the results, it was clear that the aggression rate in both teams was low - i.e. aggression scores of Saba and Mahram were 12.39 and 12.11 respectively indicating that both groups had below average and low aggression. Education also was found to have nothing to do with aggression and there is no significant relationship (r=0.028 and P=0.797) Another hypothesis test revealed a significant relationship between sex and aggression (r=-0.168, P=0.038). Finally the last hypothesis test showed that there was no relationship between income and aggression (r=-0.168, P=0.320).Interestingly, the results verified a little aggression in basketball spectators, but on the other hand there should be great endeavor to keep it low through some strict measures including police, closed circuit camera, tough law enforcement against the aggressive fans.