Values and attitudes in social sport: A test of the explanatory model of values and attitudes of sport

Abstract

Objectives: validate the explanatory model of values and attitudes in sport ─ EMVAS-and explore associations between important values variables and sports attitudes; Design: Data analysis of the Questionnaire of Variable Control Identification (QVCI), Inventory of Values from Juvenile Sport 2 (IVJS-2), Questionnaire of Attitudes in Sports (QAS-16) and Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire(PMCSQ-2); Methods: 1,125 participants (male = 687; female = 438) between the ages of 12 and 19, linked to grassroots social programs in southern Brazil with a variety of sports modalities; Results: Linear regressions using the 'stepwise' and 'enterwise' method (route analysis) indicate that there is a causal relationship between the links evaluated from 'Values' (predictor variables), 'Motivational Climate' (intermediate variables) and 'Attitudes' (predicted variables); Conclusions: there was evidence of the validity of EMVAS in the context of social sport.