Open AccessSatisfaction Scale For Athlete (SSA): A Study Of Validity And Reliability
Author(s) -
Gokhan Caliskan,
Hacer Özge Baydar
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2016.v12n14p13
Subject(s) - confirmatory factor analysis , psychology , construct validity , league , athletes , scale (ratio) , exploratory factor analysis , validity , turkish , reliability (semiconductor) , applied psychology , multivariate analysis of variance , social psychology , statistics , clinical psychology , psychometrics , mathematics , physical therapy , structural equation modeling , medicine , linguistics , physics , philosophy , power (physics) , quantum mechanics , astronomy
The purpose of this study is to develop a Satisfaction Scale for Athlete and to test its reliability and validity. Three hundred forty one professional soccer players from Turkish Super League, First and Second League voluntarily participated in this study. SSA consists of 16 items and three subscales, which are satisfaction with coach, satisfaction with team performance and satisfaction with teammates. Exploratory Factor Analysis, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Multi-Sample Confirmatory Factor Analysis and Factorial Invariance were conducted to construct validity of the Satisfaction Scale for Athlete. MANOVA was performed for known-groups validity analysis of the Satisfaction Scale for Athlete by comparing the scores of soccer players from Turkish Super League with the soccer players from First and Second Leagues. As a result, support for construct validity, reliability and with soccer athletes was established, along with measurement invariance. MANOVA analyses showed predicted discrimination between the leagues. Overall, these results show the reliability and validity of the newly established Satisfaction Scale for Athlete.