The aim of this study was to examination of sports participation questionnaire in faculty and staff at universities and confirming its validity and reliability in Iran. in this study 379 individuals from faculty members and staff of the University of Malayer city among 4000 people by using random cluster sampling method as statistical sample.in this study after examine content validity in order to examine the construct validity exploration factor analysis and for examine reliability Cronbach alpha and for data analyzing SPSS software version 32 were used. According to factor analysis the sport participation questionnaire of members of academic staff were distributed in 8 items which consisting of Psychological (5 items), family (5items), social (5 items), cultural (5 items), administrative (5 items), facilities (5 items) and economical (4 items). The reliability of questionnaire was calculated as 0.904 by using Cronbach's alpha correlation coefficient. The administrative factors (3.02±1.02), economical factors (2.96±1.00), facilities factors (2.76±0.96), and social (2.55±0.84) were the most important obstacles of sports participation of faculty members and university staff. Results of this study indicated that the obtained 39 item questionnaire is a proper scale for measure the sport participation of faculty members and university staff.
