Parental Involvement in Sport Psychometric Develo

Authors: Pedro Teques Sidónio Serpa António Rosado Carlos Silva Luís Calmeiro

Publish Date: 2016/09/29

Volume: 37, Issue: 1, Pages: 234-249

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Abstract

The purposes of the present multistudy were to develop and provide initial construct validity for measures based on the model of parental involvement in sport Study 1 and examine structural relationships among the constructs of the model Study 2 In Study 1 n parents  = 342 n athletes  = 223 a confirmatory factor analysis was used to verify the psychometric properties of the measures Content and construct validity were evaluated as well individual and composite reliability Multigroup analysis with two independent samples provided evidence of factorial invariance In Study 2 n parents  = 754 n athletes  = 438 structural equation modeling analysis supported the hypothesised model in which athletes’ perceptions of parents’ behaviours mediated the relationship between parents’ reported behaviours and the athletes’ psychological variables conducive to their achievement in sport The findings provide support for the parental involvement in sport model and demonstrate the role of perceptions of parents’ behaviours on young athletes’ cognitions in sportAll procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards

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