An Adaptation Study of Measurement Properties for the Characteristics of Resilience in Sports Team Inventory

Abstract

This multi-study paper reports the translation process and the validity and reliability analysis of the Characteristics of Resilience in Sports Teams Inventory (CREST) for the use of Turkish population. In three related studies, 414 team sports athletes from Turkey were sampled. We adopted Beaton et al.’s (2000) methodology for the translation of self-report measures for cross-cultural adaption studies. The first study provided content validity for an initial item set as the preliminary study. The second study explored the factor analysis of the CREST structure. The third study explored re-testing of the explored structure in a different set of participants and criterion-related validity provided. The analysis of Study 1 revealed that the items were understood by the participants and ready for application for the general Turkish population. The exploratory factor analysis in the Study 2 revealed that the CREST had two sub-dimensions as it was in the original inventory. The Cronbach’s alpha values for the dimensions of demonstrating resilience characteristics and vulnerabilities shown under pressure were 0.94 and 0.90, respectively. The Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin value was 0.94. The confirmatory factor analysis in the third study showed that the structure of the inventory was confirmed in another sports context. Accordingly, the CREST is a valid and reliable tool for use by Turkish athletes and to measure team resilience that is one of the critical determinants of team performance. Further understanding of team resilience as a process can be gain by using the CREST, especially in future process-oriented research for team sports.

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“…Higher scores on the 'resilient characteristics' subscale indicated greater team resilience, whereas higher scores on the 'vulnerabilities under pressure' subscale suggested lower team resilience. Previous research has demonstrated evidence for the reliability and validity of data derived from this measure (Decroos et al, 2017;Gorgulu et al, 2018;Kegelaers et al, 2020). In the current study, Cronbach's alpha was .90 for resilient characteristics and .86 for vulnerabilities under pressure.…”

Psychometric evaluation of the characteristics of resilience in sports team inventory in China

“…Moreover, the reliability coefficient of the Chinese version of CREST and test-retest reliability coefficient with a one-month interval also showed that the scale is reliable. These results were consistent with the original study [2] and the cross-cultural study [36].…”

“…Previous research has demonstrated the positive relationship between team resilience and effort, CD-RISC [2,36]. Our study provides further evidence for the positive correlation between team resilience and individual resilience, and demonstrated that CD-RISC-10 can be used as a tool to assess resilience in team sport, which is consistent with previous studies [2,35,36].…”

“…Previous research has demonstrated the positive relationship between team resilience and effort, CD-RISC [2,36]. Our study provides further evidence for the positive correlation between team resilience and individual resilience, and demonstrated that CD-RISC-10 can be used as a tool to assess resilience in team sport, which is consistent with previous studies [2,35,36]. However, there are some flaws in explaining the psychological resilience of athletes, especially team sport athletes when using CD-RISC, due to samples that came from communities, primary care outpatients, general psychiatric outpatients, clinical trial of generalised anxiety disorder, etc.…”

“…Results suggested that the CREST scale assesses resilience focusing on psychosocial processes at team level, rather than individual athletes' traits. The reliability and validity of CREST has also been examined in Turkish athletes [36].…”