Attitudes – Views of Social Groups on Factors Leading to Acts of Violence in Greek Sporting Events
Objective, of this project was to study the attitudes – viewpoints of social groups with different characteristics such as Race, Age and Education and their relevance to acts of violence in Sports. Methodology, 403 individuals of different age, gender and educational level, of random social, professional and geographical areas were interviewed. a structured questionnaire which consisted of four questions and twenty-one sub-questions was filled in, following a detailed briefing in their area. For the statistical processing of the data simple multivariate analysis was performed (MANOVA) on the subquestions of each question of the questionnaire related to Gender, Age and Educational Level of the participants. In order to detect statistically significant differences simple analysis of variance was performed (ANOVA) and Bonferroni post-ANOVA analysis. Results, as for factors forming violent acts they believe that those are sport management, the athletes and the social situation, while they offer no suggestion for possible ways of preventing/improving the phenomenon.
