TY - JOUR
T1 - Measurement invariance of the empowering and disempowering motivational climate questionnaire-coach in youth sport
AU - Appleton, P.R.
AU - Viladrich, C.
AU - Quested, Eleanor
AU - González-García, L.
AU - Papaioannou, A.
AU - Hall, H.K.
AU - Balaguer, Isabel
AU - Ramis, Y.
AU - Sarrazin, P.
AU - Heuzé, J.-P.
AU - Ommundsen, Y.
AU - Wold, B.
AU - Samdal, O.
AU - Duda, J.L.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2023 Appleton, Viladrich, Quested, González-García, Papaioannou, Hall, Balaguer, Ramis, Sarrazin, Heuzé, Ommundsen, Wold, Samdal and Duda.
PY - 2023/1/6
Y1 - 2023/1/6
N2 - The purpose of this study was to test the measurement invariance (across five languages, two time points, and two experimental conditions) of the empowering and disempowering motivational climate questionnaire-coach (EDMCQ-C; Appleton et al., 2016) when completed by 9256 young sport participants (M age = 11.53 years, SD = 1.39 years; 13.5% female). Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the validity of a 2-factor (empowering and disempowering) model running a multiple group analysis without any equality constraint (configural invariance) followed by measurement invariance of factor loadings and thresholds (scalar invariance). Findings provided support for partial invariance across languages and scalar invariance across time and experimental groups. The factors were interpretable across the analyses, and items loaded as intended by theory except for item 15. This study provides further evidence regarding the psychometric properties of the EDMCQ-C and suggests this scale (minus item 15) can be used to provide meaningful latent mean comparisons (Marsh et al., 2013) of empowering and disempowering coach-created climates across athletes speaking the five targeted languages, across time, and across experimental groups.
AB - The purpose of this study was to test the measurement invariance (across five languages, two time points, and two experimental conditions) of the empowering and disempowering motivational climate questionnaire-coach (EDMCQ-C; Appleton et al., 2016) when completed by 9256 young sport participants (M age = 11.53 years, SD = 1.39 years; 13.5% female). Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the validity of a 2-factor (empowering and disempowering) model running a multiple group analysis without any equality constraint (configural invariance) followed by measurement invariance of factor loadings and thresholds (scalar invariance). Findings provided support for partial invariance across languages and scalar invariance across time and experimental groups. The factors were interpretable across the analyses, and items loaded as intended by theory except for item 15. This study provides further evidence regarding the psychometric properties of the EDMCQ-C and suggests this scale (minus item 15) can be used to provide meaningful latent mean comparisons (Marsh et al., 2013) of empowering and disempowering coach-created climates across athletes speaking the five targeted languages, across time, and across experimental groups.
KW - AGT
KW - ESEM
KW - SDT
KW - invariance
KW - sport
KW - youth
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U2 - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.958444
DO - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.958444
M3 - Article
C2 - 36687840
SN - 1664-1078
VL - 13
SP - 1
EP - 14
JO - Frontiers in Psychology
JF - Frontiers in Psychology
M1 - 13:958444
ER -