چكيده لاتين :
Background and aims: Great investments are made in many countries to provide the grounds for every
member of the society to be benefited. However, the results of several studies show that many people
suffer from multiple injuries and sometimes die as they are doing sports activities. Therefore, sport is
one of the high-risk activities with many professional damages that apart from economic costs on the
health, include very serious psychological costs on athletes, families in specific and the whole society, in
general. Today, it is believed that most of the accidents (about 85 percent) are due to the errors and
carelessness of the employees. Therefore, it seems that Improving the safety culture is a basic solution to
reduce these accidents in sports events and fields. Safety culture refers to a set of beliefs, motifs, norms,
roles and performances that reduce the encounter of employees and managers to dangerous situations. If
the governing safety culture in an organization is positive and desirable, this culture, as an effective
factor, can commit all elements of the organization to have a major contribution to the safety of
themselves and their colleagues. Management is the key element in the safety culture. Management is
the key element in safety culture. Managers play a key and essential role in improving the safety culture,
preventing accidents and improving job performance and culturalization, and accelerating the process.
Among factors affecting occupational performance is the individuals' personality because the individual
personality determines his/ her motivation and attitude toward job and the way the individual responds to
job requirements. The value of the personality has been accepted as one of the predictors of occupational
and behavioral performance. According to the researchers, unsafe behaviors are highly influenced by
individuals’ personal traits because the individuals’ personality traits determine their motifs and attitudes
towards their job and how they meet job requirements. Therefore, individuals related to sensitive and
safety-related conditions should be highly sensitive to observe safety principles proportionate to their
characteristics and consider creating a positive safety culture as an essential issue in sports activities to
reduce accidents effectively. Therefore, by identifying and investigating the personality dimensions of
sports places managers, it can be used as a predictor of unsafe behaviors. In summary, paying attention
to numerous risks in sports activities is essential and taking safety culture into consideration as a major
priority is natural is sports. Considering the role and responsibility of sport field managers in safety and
health of athletes, spectators and other visitors, the present study aims at evaluating the safety culture
among sport field managers based on IAEA Model and its relationship with their Demographic
characteristics and personality. This study aims at answering the following questions: first, how is safety
culture among sport field managers? Second, what is the relationship between the positive safety culture
and Demographic characteristics and personality of sport field managers (gender, being extroverted or
introverted, and experience and education level)?
Methods: This is an applied study in terms of purpose, a descriptive survey in terms of data collection
methodology, and a correlation study in terms of data analysis. The research population includes all the
sport field managers in Iran that consists of 22167 participants according to the statistics of the
Development and Maintenance of Sports Facilities of Iran. The sample size included 379 participants
based on the table of Krejcie and Morgan. Considering the level of errors due to not receiving complete
questionnaires (the questionnaires being lost, not answering them, incomplete and invalid
questionnaires), a number of 416 questionnaires were distributed and finally, 400 appropriate and
flawless questionnaires were collected and analyzed. Multistage sampling was conducted on different
provinces and cities and finally, the sample was selected using simple random sampling. The research
tools included Eysenck Personality Questionnaire (EPQ) (1968) and demographic variables including 25
questions and the Safety Culture Survey including 35 questions related to the field of learning and
teaching, responsibility, safety priorities, leadership and safety integrity. To insure the face and content
validity of the questionnaire, its first edition was investigated by the experts in the field and the required
corrections were applied on the items according to experts’ comments. The questionnaires were used
after the experts confirmed them. The questionnaires’ reliability was calculated to be 0.76 for the
Eysenck Personality Questionnaire and 0.82 for the Safety Culture Survey in a preliminary study by internal consistency through Chronbach’s alpha. Descriptive statistics (frequency tables, frequency
percentage, average and standard deviation) and inferential statistics (variance analysis, independent Ttest,
Pearson’s correlation coefficient and logistic regression) were used for data analysis using SPSS 19
at the significance level of p > 0.05.
Results: Demographic findings of the research showed that the majority of the statistical male sample
(68.5%) holds bachelor degree (44.5%) and master degree (29.5%). Results showed that the mean safety
culture of sport field managers was 130.12 and its standard deviation was 21.5. The score above 105 is
regarded as the positive safety culture. The independent T-test showed that the average score of safety
culture is higher in women than men and the difference is significant according to the value of t + -2.970
at the significance level of P = 0.00. Results of ANOVA showed that although by the increase in the
work experience, the level of safety culture increases, while no significant relationship was observed
between the two variables (P = 0.657). Results of ANOVA showed that by an increase in education
level, the positive safety culture increases, while the relationship was not significant statistically (P =
0.391). Eta correlation coefficient showed that there is a significant (P = 0.01) negative (r = - 0.19)
relationship between being extroverted and the safety culture. Moreover, there is a significant (P 0.00)
and direct (r = 0.29) relationship between being introverted and the safety culture. Considering the type
of variables and using eta correlation coefficient to investigate the correlation between the variables,
logistic regression was used to determine which variables are strong predictors of safety culture. For
overall estimation of the model, omnibus test analysis was used. Omnibus test showed that the logistic
regression model was significant. That is, it can predict the variables efficiently. The log-likelihood of
logistic regression showed that the variables are 69 percent able to determine the dependent variable.
The results of Hosmer-Lemeshow test (HL test) for regression fitting showed that the model is
appropriate and fit well. This means that a series of variables have predicted the criterion variable.
Therefore, the predictors of safety culture should be identified from among the variables. Results of odds
ratio showed that the odd ratio of being introverted and extroverted is relatively good. The odds ratio
equals beta (β) in linear regression. The ratio was significant with 0.39 for being extroverted and 0.48 for
being introverted. In general, the more extroverted the person is, the safety culture increases and it is
vice versa regarding being introverted. In this regard, classification of the average values of safety
culture aspects showed that safety priority with an average value of 31.5 and responsibility with an
average value of 24.2 had the greatest and smallest average values.
Conclusion: Conclusion: The safety culture is an essential element to prevent accidents from occurring
in sports places and events. In the view of researchers, the incidence of unsafe behaviors is greatly under
the influence of personality traits of individuals, especially managers. Therefore, the current research
aims to investigate the relationship between personality traits of sports places' managers and their safety
culture. Results showed that the safety culture has a significant relationship with gender, extroversion,
and introversion of managers, but has no significant relationship with work experience and education
level. It seems that the more positive attitude of women towards occupational issues, psychological and
personality traits, higher sensitivity to job safety issues and avoiding risks that makes them attempt to do
the assigned tasks in the best way and the least risks, direct more attention to safety culture in women. In
addition, unlike the extroverted people who are risk-taking and in search of excitement do not shoulder
their responsibilities and believe that accidents are inevitable, the introverted are indecisive, thoughtful
and cautious. The introverted believe that events and accidents are results of their actions and are more
satisfied with their actions. Since the introverted are conditioned more and quicker, they adapt to the
crowd and obey the rules. They pay more attention to the current rules of safety and follow the rules to
develop positive safety culture and reduce unsafe actions. Accordingly, the safety culture is higher in the
introverted than in the extroverted. Regarding the lack of effect of education level on mangers’ safety
culture, it can be stated that courses related to safety in PE is not taught in higher education in the field
of physical education. Furthermore, during in-service courses, the training courses are held similarly for
all the people at different education levels and this leads to the irrelevance of the awareness of managers
and employees about safety and education level. Therefore, investigating different aspects of personality
and safety culture, the efficiency in sports organizations can be improved and the accidents in sport
events and fields can be reduced besides identifying and assigning people that pay less attention to safety
culture to low-risk jobs.