Validity and Reliability of Sport Satisfaction
Journal Title: International Research Journal of Applied and Basic Sciences - Year 2014, Vol 8, Issue 10
Abstract
This research has been designed and conducted to evaluate the validity and reliability of Sport Satisfaction questionnaire as an instrument in sports environment to assess the status of Sport Satisfaction dimensions among the athletes of clubs. A 12 question questionnaire has been designed to measure the dimensions of Sport Satisfaction by studying the background of existing researches. The statistical sample included male athletes working in Iran’s in Division I football players (Azadegan League), and 156 questionnaires returned at last. In this research, the exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was used to evaluate the validity of structure after assessing the validity of content and convergent validity (average variance extracted). And, to evaluate the combinational reliability, Cronbach’s Alpha was used. Moreover, the applications SPSS and Lisrel were used to analyze data. The results of exploratory factor analysis indicated that three factors (Performance dependent factor, Desirable factor, Industry standard factor) were explained by 62.14 percent of variance, and Kaser-Meyer-Olkin was measured 0.86. The reliability of the questionnaire was reported to be 0.89 and 0.92 based on Cronbach’s Alpha and combinational reliability, respectively. Given the fact that the validity and reliability indexes of questionnaire have all been reported to be in a satisfactory condition, this questionnaire can be used as a valid and reliable questionnaire to measure sport satisfaction and its dimensions.
Authors and Affiliations
Hamid Sarani *| Student of PhD, Faculty of Physical Education and Sport Science, Kharazmi University, International campus, Karaj, Iran. email: Hamid.Sarani1@gmail.com, Ahmad Ahmadzadeh| Sama Technical and Vocational Training college, Islamic Azad University, Babol Branch, Babol, Iran., Parvaneh Souri| Master of Science in Sport Management
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