Abstract The purpose of this study is to discuss the barriers of sports participation for office employees of the city of Malayer. The research is carried out under a field method and its population includes entire office staff of the city of Malayer as 4500 individuals. According to Morgan’s table, sample size was determined as 350 individuals who were selected from various offices and firms of the city of Malayer through an availability sampling method. Instruments of this research include a demographic information questionnaire, the standard questionnaire of ACSM and a researcher made questionnaire. The calculated reliability of ACSM questionnaire and the researcher made questionnaire of barriers of sports participation are respectively 0.86 and 0.81. In addition, for the purpose of analysis of data, descriptive statistics methods such as Tables, diagrams, central indexes and dispersion indexes are used. Also for determination of normality of data distribution, the Kolmogorov-Smirnoff test was used and after that, the two sample t-test and Freedman’s two way NACOVA test were used within the environment of SPSS v.23 Software. Results of study indicate that the effects of psychological barriers is the highest priority and after that, effects of personal, cultural, domestic and social barriers are the later priorities.
