ATTITUDES OF SPORTS FANS IN MONTENEGRO TOWARD NATIONAL IDENTITY AMONG THEIR AGES

Journal Title: Sport Mont - Year 2014, Vol 0, Issue 40

Abstract

-It is widely known that sport and national identity have been stronglyconnected through entire history. An individual sportsmen or a national sportteam may represent a certain group of people united around a single goal or the sameideas (Popovic & Bjelica, 2013). Hence, they, accompanied with the sports fans, representan entire nation and foster a sense of national pride amongst members of a givennation (Bogdanov, 2011). Consequently, this research was aimed at gaining relevantknowledge about the attitudes of sports fans that constantly attend the matches of nationalteam toward national identity, mostly due to the reason the authors of this researchbelieved that it could vary according to their ages. Methods- The sample included669 respondents who have been divided into six subgroups- younger than 20 years old(n=326), 20-30 years old (n=203), 30-40 years old (n=46), 40-50 years old (n=30),50-60 years old (n=42) as well as sports fans who were older than 60 years old(n=22). The sample of variables consisted of 19 items, and the subjects were evaluatedit by a seven-point Likert scale. Regarding the statistical analysis, descriptive statistics

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Duško Bjelica, Stevo Popović, Rašid Hadžić, Ivan Vasiljević

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Duško Bjelica, Stevo Popović, Rašid Hadžić, Ivan Vasiljević (2014). ATTITUDES OF SPORTS FANS IN MONTENEGRO TOWARD NATIONAL IDENTITY AMONG THEIR AGES. Sport Mont, 0(40), 10-16. https://europub.co.uk/articles/-A-193083