Adaptation and Validation of Sport-Confidence Measure to Gymnasts and Football Players

Abstract

This study aimed to adapt the Sport-Confidence Inventory to Brazilian athletes and to investigate validity and reliability of adapted instrument. Elite athletes from 12 to 22 years of age that practice artistic gymnastics, rhythm gymnastics or football have participated in the study. The research procedures were: a) to realize the transcultural adaptation of SCI; b) to investigate evidences of content validity by pilot study; c) to investigate the construct validity, by principal component analysis; and d) to investigate reliability evidences by analysis of Cronbach's alpha values of the adapted instrument. Results showed reliability evidences of the instrument to the application in gymnasts and football players. Construct validity indicated different composition to the subscales in each group. Future research may improve the semantic quality of Questionário de Autoconfiança no Esporte, considering the particularities of each sport.

Validation and cultural adaptation of the Sport Confidence Inventory (SCI) for Brazilian adolescent athletes

“…Fogarty et al (2016), when analyzing the psychometric properties of SCI, corroborated with this result when they identified high inter-correlations between the factors and indicators of "Cognitive Efficiency" and "Resilience", indicating overlap between them. In addition, in the study of Frischknecht, Pesca and Cruz (2016), the authors verified differences in factorial composition of SCI for Brazilian soccer players and gymnasts from 12 to 22 years old, in which three factors were identified for soccer players and four factors for gymnasts.…”

“…In Brazil, the SCI was applied in athletes from 12 to 22 years of soccer and gymnastics, with verification of different compositions of the construct for the subscales of each sport (Frischknecht;Pesca & Cruz, 2016). Considering the limitations verified in the validation of the SCI in the Frischknecht, Pesca and Cruz (2016) study, especially with regard to the choice of only two sports and the inclusion of adolescent and young adults athletes in the same analysis, it is believed that the improvement of the translation of this instrument and subsequent validation in representative samples of Brazilian adolescent athletes from the most varied sports, will fill the gap pointed for the Brazilian sport context.…”

“…Regarding the use of this instrument in Brazil, Frischknecht, Pesca and Cruz (2016), made the translation into Portuguese language and validation for Brazilian soccer players and gymnasts from 12 to 22 years. However, the authors suggested that the semantic quality of the instrument needed further refinement and reported that gymnasts had difficulty in understanding and familiarizing some translated terms, such as the question of using "tactical strategies".…”

Sports Performance Anxiety and Sports Confidence Among College Athletes: The Moderating Effect of Friendship Quality

“…The independent variable of this study is sports confidence taken from Adaptation and Validation of Sport-Confidence Measure to Gymnasts and Football Players by (Frischknecht et al 2016) with the indicators; physical skills and training, cognitive efficiency, and resilience.…”

“…The first part is the Measurement of Multidimensional Sport Performance Anxiety in Children and Adults: The Sport Anxiety Scale-2, Smith, Smoll, Cumming and Grossbard (2006), which consists of three indicators: somatic, worry, concentration and disruption. The second part is the Adaptation and Validation of Sport-Confidence Measure to Gymnasts and Football Players, Frischknecht, Pesca, and Cruz (2016) The variables will be measured on a five-point Likert-type scale of 1 to 5, anchored with "never manifested" to "always manifested." The ranges for the means of the athletic mental energy survey questionnaire and the corresponding verbal descriptions are presented in the table below.…”