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Cross‐cultural validity and measurement invariance of the Organizational Stressor Indicator for Sport Performers (OSI‐SP) across three countries
Author(s) -
Arnold R.,
Ponnusamy V.,
Zhang C.Q.,
Gucciardi D. F.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of medicine and science in sports
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.575
H-Index - 115
eISSN - 1600-0838
pISSN - 0905-7188
DOI - 10.1111/sms.12688
Subject(s) - operationalization , conceptualization , stressor , confirmatory factor analysis , psychology , measurement invariance , social psychology , equivalence (formal languages) , construct validity , test (biology) , structural equation modeling , psychometrics , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , computer science , mathematics , statistics , philosophy , epistemology , discrete mathematics , artificial intelligence , paleontology , biology
Organizational stressors are a universal phenomenon which can be particularly prevalent and problematic for sport performers. In view of their global existence, it is surprising that no studies have examined cross‐cultural differences in organizational stressors. One explanation for this is that the Organizational Stressor Indicator for Sport Performers ( OSI ‐ SP ; A rnold, F letcher, & D aniels, 2013), which can comprehensively measure the organizational pressures that sport performers have encountered, has not yet been translated from English into any other languages nor scrutinized cross‐culturally. The first purpose of this study, therefore, was to examine the cross‐cultural validity of the OSI ‐ SP . In addition, the study aimed to test the equivalence of the OSI ‐ SP 's factor structure across cultures. British ( n = 379), Chinese ( n = 335), and Malaysian ( n = 444) sport performers completed the OSI ‐ SP . Confirmatory factor analyses confirmed the cross‐cultural validity of the factorial model for the British and Malaysian samples; however, the overall model fit for the Chinese data did not meet all guideline values. Support was provided for the equality of factor loadings, variances, and covariances on the OSI ‐ SP across the British and Malaysian cultures. These findings advance knowledge and understanding on the cross‐cultural existence, conceptualization, and operationalization of organizational stressors.