THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SPORT INSURANCE SERVICES AND PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF COACHES AND ATHLETES

The aim of the study was to investigate the relationship between sports insurance quality and the professional commitment from the perspective of coaches and athletes. The population of the investigation were all coaches and athletes in the city of Sanandaj who have sports medicine insurance card and their number was 6886 and the sample size was determined based on Morgan table equal to 364 samples. In order to collect data from questionnaires, professional commitment Meyer and Allen (2012) and quality of service standard questionnaire SERVQUAL questionnaire were used. The results obtained in both descriptive and inferential statistics were analyzed. The descriptive statistics of frequency distribution tables, central tendency and dispersion measures and inferential statistics Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for normality of the data were used. Confirming the assumptions (normal distribution data) of parametric tests including Pearson correlation coefficient was used. The findings of this study showed that there is a significant relationship between professional commitment and insurance quality in sports clubs. As well as between all the components of quality of service with athletic commitment, there is a significant relationship between coaches and athletes.