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The Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire: Testing for Measurement Invariance and Latent Mean Differences in Spanish and Portuguese Adolescents

Inés TomásCláudia DiasIsabel BalaguerIsabel CastilloJoan L. DudaAntónio M. Fonseca

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Social PsychologyGoal orientationSelf-conceptGoal theoryFactor structurelanguage.human_languageEducationDevelopmental psychologyModeling and SimulationId ego and super-egolanguageMeasurement invariancePortuguesePsychologySocial psychologyFactor analysis

description

Within the theoretical framework of achievement goals (Nicholls, 1989), Duda and Nicholls (see Duda, 1989; Duda & Whitehead, 1998) developed the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (TEOSQ) to assess individual differences in achievement goal orientations. This study searches for validity evidence of the TEOSQ in the case of Spanish (2473) and Portuguese (2486) junior high school. The results showed that factor structure, factor loadings, and intercepts could be considered invariant across groups. Between group differences in latent means showed slightly higher mean scores for the Spanish group for both factors. The results also provide high support for the internal consistency of both the Spanish and Portuguese versions of this scale.

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2010-02-16International Journal of Testing
https://doi.org/10.1080/15305050903352107