Adaptação transcultural do Empowering Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire para a língua portuguesa e análise da invariância em atletas masculinos brasileiros e portugueses

Abstract

O objetivo do presente estudo foi o de proceder à tradução e adaptação transcultural do “Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire-Coach” (EDMCQ-C) para a língua portuguesa e analisar a invariância da sua estrutura fatorial, quando aplicado a atletas brasileiros e portugueses. A amostra foi constituída por 963 atletas do sexo masculino, praticantes de diferentes desportos (andebol, basquetebol, futebol, futsal e voleibol), com idades compreendidas entre os 11 e os 24 anos (M = 15.04 ± 1.88), sendo 553 brasileiros (M = 15.81 ± 1.91) e 410 portugueses (M = 13.94 ± 1.30). Através do recurso à Análise Fatorial Confirmatória, foi possível verificar a existência de bons índices de ajustamento ao modelo teórico examinado, com uma solução reduzida constituída por 15 itens, distribuídos pelos cinco fatores do instrumento original (χ2/df = 2.38; CFI = 0.97; TLI = 0.96; SRMR = 0.03; RMSEA = 0.04). Complementarmente, a invariância do modelo de medida, quando aplicado a atletas brasileiros e portugueses, foi avaliada através da comparação do modelo com pesos fatoriais fixos e o modelo com coeficientes estruturais livres, tendo o resultado sido de ΔCFI = 0.01. Em conformidade, os resultados encontrados suportam a sugestão de que a versão adaptada para a língua portuguesa do EDMCQ-C evidencia boas propriedades psicométricas, podendo, portanto, constituir-se como uma ferramenta útil para avaliar as perceções de atletas brasileiros e portugueses sobre o clima motivacional que lhes é proporcionado pelos seus treinadores. The aim of the present study was to carry out the cross-cultural adaptation of the Portuguese version of "Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate" (EDMCQ-C), which evaluates the athletes' perception the motivational climate provided by the coach and to examinethe factorial invariance between Brazilians and Portuguese. The sample was composed by 963 male athletes from different sports (handball, basketball, soccer, futsal and volleyball), aged between 11 and 24 (M = 15.04 ± 1.88), of whom 553 were Brazilian (M = 15.81 ± 1.91) and 410 Portuguese athletes (M = 13.94 ± 1.30). The results of the confirmatory factorial analysis found satisfactory adjustment indices of the model for both portuguese (χ2/df = 1.67; CFI = 0.92; TLI = 0.91; SRMR = 0.06; RMSEA = 0.04) and brazilian (χ2/df = 1.92; CFI = 0.90; TLI = 0.89; SRMR = 0.05; RMSEA = 0.04). The results also showed that the model of measurement was invariant between Brazilian and Portuguese athletes (ΔCFI <0.01). In conclusion, the instrument used can be a useful to analyze the perception of Brazilian and Portuguese athletes for the motivational climate provided by the coach.

Validation of the Lithuanian Version of the Coach-Created Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire (EDMCQ-C)

“…For the reliability analysis, Cronbach's alpha coefficients were calculated. Based on previous studies examining the psychometrics of the EDMCQ-C [39,44], alphas of > 0.80 were deemed acceptable.…”

“…Although further work is required to resolve the aforementioned issues associated with the scale's factor structure, the EDMCQ-C has been successfully used in previous research where a positive relationship between athletes' perceptions of a coach-created empowering climate and autonomous motivation [41,42], sport-related enjoyment [43] and health and optimal functioning [15] have emerged, offering initial support for the predictive validity of the scale. However, to date, the majority of published studies examining the psychometric properties of the EDMCQ-C have been conducted with athletes from England (for an exception [44,45]) and thus additional research is required to test the validity and reliability of the scale using data from sport participants in other countries.…”

Basic Psychological-Need Satisfaction and Thwarting: A Study with Brazilian Professional Players of League of Legends

“…A coach-created Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire (EDMCQ-Q) [53] assesses the athletes' perception of the socio-environmental characteristics proposed by the AGT and SDT. The Brazilian version was adapted by Oliveira and contributors (2018) [54]. The scale has 32 items subdivided into five Latent Variables (LV), of which three (17-items) are related to positive behaviours that make up the Empowering Climate: Task-Involving (TI-"My coach encouraged players to try new skills"), autonomy-supportive (AS-"My coach gave players choices and options"), and socially-supportive (SS-"My coach really appreciated players as people, not just as athletes").…”

Validación del Cuestionario de Climas Motivacionales empowering y disempowering en jóvenes deportistas mexicanos

“…Investigaciones recientes han comprobado que el clima empowering se asocia de forma positiva con la satisfacción de las necesidades psicológicas básicas, la frustración de las necesidades psicológicas básicas, e intenciones futuras de práctica deportiva (Castillo-Jiménez et al, 2022;Lun, 2018). Estas investigaciones han sido analizadas en diferentes idiomas y culturas (Karadağ & Asci, 2020;Oliveira et al, 2019;Song & Cheon, 2018;Sukys et al, 2020) y específicamente en México, se han comprobado dichas relaciones en diferentes contextos deportivos (Castillo-Jiménez et al, 2022;Gutiérrez-García et al, 2020;Hernández-Mederos, 2021;Mosqueda et al, 2022).…”

“…El Cuestionario de Climas Motivacionales Empowering y Disempowering en el Deporte ha sido validado en diferentes contextos como en educación física (Song & Cheon, 2018) y en diferentes deportes (Karadağ & Asci, 2020;Oliveira et al, 2019;Sukys et al, 2020) y en diferentes culturas (Appleton et al, 2022).…”