Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Assistant Professor of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Central Branch. (Corresponding Author)

2 MA of Sociology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch

Abstract

Hooliganism, which can be construed as the violence of soccer fans, is a much serious and current phenomenon that brings about adverse effects in society. Therefore, the main questions of the present research are as follows: what factors affect hooliganism among soccer spectators and how? to what extent? The study employs a positivist approach, and the applied method is based on explanatory research, which is based on the data of a questionnaire handed out in September 2018, after making sure of the validity and reliability of the questionnaire. The statistic population consisted of soccer fans in Tehran who were collected randomly based on Cochrane’s formula, the final number of the population being 442. The results are as follows: The environment, false emotions, facilities, and extrovert personalities are factors that affect and cause hooliganism. The environmental factor and the false emotional factor affect hooliganism directly and positively. The factors of' facilities and extrovert personalities affect the dependent variable indirectly. The factor of false emotions not only affect hooliganism directly, but they also affect it by affecting the environment.

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