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Measurement invariance of the Behavioural Regulation in Sport Questionnaire when completed by young athletes across five European countries
Andrew P. HillYngvar OmmundsenOddrun SamdalNikos NtoumanisPaul R. AppletonCarme ViladrichNikos ZourbanosJoan L. DudaSaul AlcarazPriscila FabraJean-philippe HeuzéEleanor Questedsubject
Factorial invarianceSocial Psychology05 social sciencesPhysical activityBaseline model050109 social psychology030229 sport sciencesFactorial validityStructural equation modelingConfirmatory factor analysisDevelopmental psychology03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicine0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesMeasurement invariancePsychologyApplied PsychologyClinical psychologyFactor analysisdescription
The purpose of this study was (1) to examine the factorial validity of the Behavioural Regulation Sport in Questionnaire (BRSQ) when completed by young soccer players in the Promoting Adolescent Physical Activity (PAPA) project (9-15 years old) in 5 European countries (France: n = 1248, Greece: n = 1507, Norway: n = 1397, Spain: n = 2245, and England: n = 1372) and (2) test the measurement invariance of its latent factors across these 5 countries.First, we tested the exploratory structural equation model (ESEM) factor analyses, allowing cross-loadings between factors, against the traditional independent clusters confirmatory factor analysis model (ICM-CFA), with all cross-loadings constrained to zero. The ESEM showed very Good Fit Indices, whereas the ICM-CFA was not tenable across countries. Second, the ESEM was used as the baseline model for the tests of factor loading (metric) invariance and factor loading plus thresholds (scalar) invariance. The five factors obtained from the analysis were scalar inva...
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013-10-18 | International Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology |