Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Ph.D Student of Sport Management, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Department of Physical Education, QaemShahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, QaemShahr, Iran
3 Department of Sports Management, Ayatollah Amoli Branch, Islamic Azad University, Amol, Iran.
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of personal branding of professional athletes on Instagram on sports immigration. Descriptive research method of the type of correlation and necessary information was obtained using library studies and two questionnaires: 1. Personal brand of professional athletes Faraji et al.(2021), 2. Reasons for immigration of elite athletes, Bagheri et al. (2019). The statistical population is all professional athletes active on Instagram, and using Cochran's formula for an unlimited population, the number of 384 sample people was purposefully determined. The face and content validity of the questionnaires were approved by the professors and its reliability was also confirmed using Cronbach's alpha test. The results showed that personal branding has an effect on sports immigration, as it explains about 20% of the causes of sports immigration. According to the value of beta coefficient, the amount of this effect was 0.446. Among the four factors of personal brand; ethical and political factors of the brand had a significant effect on immigration, and personal and functional factors had no effect. Also, the personal branding of athletes has had an effect on the social, economic, political and professional aspects of sports immigration, respectively. Social networks enable athletes to influence the immigration process in a digital space. Immigration is made up of several layers of athletes, owners, managers, representatives, officials and members of the media and it includes not only economic factors through marketing strategies, but also political, historical, geographical, social and cultural factors.
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