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Determining the validity and reliability of measuring scale for entrepreneurship in sport

Author(s): Leila Saffari, Farshad Tojari, Abbas Khodayari, Sardar Mohammadi,Seyed Nemat Khalifa

The present study aims to measure the entrepreneurship of graduate students of physical education. In so doing, a 75-item entrepreneurship questionnaire was implemented on 300 last semester bachelor students of Physical Education and Sport Sciences in Azad and State universities of Tehran province, Iran. This scale consists of twelve subscales including responsibility, opportunity, confidence, seeking opportunity, progress motivation, risk tolerance, perseverance, need to progress, creativity, intelligence, assertiveness and decision- making and 75 items with statements on entrepreneurship in sport. Face and content validity [expert's opinions], structure [exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis] were used to validate questionnaire and Cronbach's alpha method [0.90] was used for making the questionnaire reliable. The results revealed that for entrepreneurial tool in sport, the priority of areas is: responsibility, chance, confidence, seeking opportunity, progress motivation, risk tolerance, perseverance, need to progress, creativity, intelligence, assertiveness and making-decision, respectively. It is necessary to do an action for recognizing the features, status and importance of entrepreneurs' works because entrepreneurship is the main factor of creativity and innovation. Without a doubt, studying characteristics of entrepreneurs and designing and constructing an instrument for identifying and supporting them are important.