The present study aims to examine the influence of social support, social cultural, social personal and social interferential factors on the sports participation of successful female school athletes of Pakistan. The existing study employed a quantitative research approach using survey methodology. The questionnaire was composed for 313 randomly selected samples of successful female athletes from various secondary schools of rural areas in Pakistan. The survey data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, correlation, multiple regression and path analyses. The findings revealed that social support, social cultural, social personal, and social interferential factors significantly predicted the variance in sports participation of successful female athletes. Furthermore, the path analysis results indicated that social interferential factor as moderator in the models did not influence the relationships of social support, social cultural, and social personal factors with the sports partici.....

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