Abstract

Objective of this project was to study the attitudes - viewpoints of social groups with different characteristics such as Race Age and Education and their relevance to acts of violence in Sports Methodology 403 individuals of different age gender and educational level of random social professional and geographical areas were interviewed a structured questionnaire which consisted of four questions and twenty-one sub-questions was filled in following a detailed briefing in their area For the statistical processing of the data simple multivariate analysis was performed MANOVA on the subquestions of each question of the questionnaire related to Gender Age and Educational Level of the participants In order to detect statistically significant differences simple analysis of variance was performed ANOVA and Bonferroni post-ANOVA analysis Results as for factors forming violent acts they believe that those are sport management the athletes and the social situation while they offer no suggestion for possible ways of preventing improving the phenomenon