ROLE OF SUPPORTIVE AND NON-SUPPORTIVE FACTORS ON WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION IN SPORTS

The aim of the existing study is to examine the role of various supportive (social support factors) and non-supportive (social interferential factors) factors associated to women participation in sports at Pakistani rural areas secondary schools. The main problem to be addressed in this present study was poor social support from parents, siblings, peers, and sport teachers as social support factors and dress code and gender inequality as social interferential (non-supportive) factors in the way to sports participation especially for female athletes belonging to secondary schools of rural areas of Pakistan. A sample was comprised of 70 female athletes from two girls' schools of district Sahiwal. The statistical method employed in the existing research was descriptive statistics while 46 responded. The results of the present study revealed that social support factors as parents, siblings, peers, and sport teachers whereas dress code and gender inequality as social interferential factors played an important role on women participation in sports and these foremost factors may decline participation figure in Pakistani women sports.