Factors influencing women to play professional tackle football
| dc.contributor.author | Sweeney, Sarah | |
| dc.contributor.committeeChair | Myers, Bettye | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | French, Ron | |
| dc.contributor.committeeMember | Raisinghani, Michael | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2018-09-25T15:27:19Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2018-09-25T15:27:19Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013-05 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of this study was to: (a) determine the value player's attach to factors that influence women to choose to play professional tackle football based on the Theory of Planned Behavior; (b) determine the reasons women choose to play professional tackle football; (c) determine if there are different reasons women choose to play professional tackle football based on age, educational level, previous team sport participation, and years played professional tackle football; and (d) determine the reasons why women choose to play professional tackle football based on the three types of categories of the Theory of Planned Behavior (attitude toward the behavior, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral norm). Women's Professional Tackle Football Participation Paired Comparison Instrument (WPTFPPCI) was developed for this study. Of the 107 returned questionnaires, there were 72 correctly completed questionnaires: 10 were from Independent Women's Football League, 47 from Women's Football Alliance, and 15 represented both leagues. Based on the results of this study, the most important factor influencing women to play women's professional tackle football was 'Love the Sport.' There were four demographic variables of the data where 'Love the Sport' was not the top choice included; first in the age variable, the youngest group chose 'Challenge' as their most import factor; second in the educational level variable, those with Masters degrees chose 'Challenge'; third, those with Doctoral degrees selected 'Health and Fitness'; fourth in the years played professional tackle football variable, players with 3 to 5 years of experience selected 'Challenge' as the most import factor. Finally, the four most selected factors were all in the Attitude Toward Behavior categories of the Theory of Planned Behavior: 'Love the Sport' (81%), 'Challenge' (74%), 'Excitement' (68%), and 'Have Fun' (65%). The least often selected factors were all from the Subjective Norm category: 'Family Tradition' (14%), 'Cultural' (17%), 'Recognition' (28%), and 'Friends Play' (32%). | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11274/10435 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.subject | Social sciences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Health and environmental sciences | en_US |
| dc.subject | Planned behavior | en_US |
| dc.subject | Professional tackle football | en_US |
| dc.subject | Women in sport | en_US |
| dc.subject | Women's football | en_US |
| dc.title | Factors influencing women to play professional tackle football | en_US |
| dc.type | Dissertation | en_US |
| thesis.degree.college | College of Health Sciences | |
| thesis.degree.department | Department of Kinesiology | en_US |
| thesis.degree.discipline | Kinesiology | |
| thesis.degree.grantor | Texas Woman's University | en_US |
| thesis.degree.level | Doctoral | en_US |
| thesis.degree.name | Doctor of Philosophy | en_US |