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The Reliability and Validity of Scores from the Children’S Version of the Perception of Success Questionnaire
Esko LeskinenJarmo Liukkonensubject
Goal orientationSocial perceptionApplied Mathematicsmedia_common.quotation_subject05 social sciencesNeed for achievementConstruct validityCognition030229 sport sciencesTest validity050105 experimental psychologyConfirmatory factor analysisEducationDevelopmental psychology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicinePerceptionDevelopmental and Educational Psychology0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesPsychologyApplied Psychologymedia_commondescription
Recent research into achievement motivation in sports has focused on goal orientation theory, according to which task and ego goal orientations manifest themselves in achievement contexts and may have different cognitive and affective outcomes. The present study analyzed the reliability and validity of scores on the children’s version of the Perception of Success Questionnaire (POSQ-CH). The participants were 557 14-year-old Finnish male soccer players. Because the Task Orientation and Ego Orientation subscales were found to be orthogonal, we applied confirmatory factor analysis to the task and ego orientation items separately to evaluate the reliability and validity coefficients of the item scores and the reliability coefficients of the factor scores. The internal consistency coefficients for the two subscales’ scores were high, and scores on both scales had strong construct validity.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999-08-01 | Educational and Psychological Measurement |