Designing an Interpretative Structural Model for Factors Influencing Professional Ethics in Female National Team Coaches

Background: Regarding the sensitivities and attention of public opinion, observing professional ethics for female national team coaches is an important issue. Therefore, the aim of this study was designing interpretive structural model of factors effect on professional ethics in females' national team coaches. Method: This research as a developmental, applied and survey research is organized by qualitative-quantitative combination method. In the qualitative section, among research related to the professional ethics of athletics, coaches and women, 38 available and relevant articles were selected as sample and the factors related to the research problem were identified with Meta-synthesis method. Factors that had a content validity index of over 0.7 were used in the study. In the quantitative section, interpretative structural modeling and network analysis process were used. Among experts in professional ethics and coaches, 13 people were selected by snowball sampling method. Data were gathered using a paired comparison questionnaire. Questionnaires with an inconsistency rate of less than 0.1 were considered in the calculations. The calculations were done in Excel and super fusion. Results: The factors that are considered as personal criteria are the most important factors for the development of professional ethics among female national team coaches and the most important factor is “Self-awareness”. Conclusion: The findings of this research can be the basis for policy making in the field of selecting, controlling and performance evaluating of female coaches