Title: Preliminary development of coping style scale for Chinese sports coach
Abstract: [Objective]To develop the coping style scale for Chinese sports coach.[Methods]The items of scale were developed on the basis of literature theory,semi-structured questionnaire survey and interview. Then by investigating 224 sports coaches,it developed the preliminarily scale with item analysis. Finally,the exploratory factor analysis(EFA) was done with 437 sports coaches,while the confirmatory factor analysis(CFA) was done with 523 sports coaches,and the reliability was analyzed.[Results]The scale contains 17 items,which belongs to 4 factors,including solving problems,abreaction,transcendence and avoidance,and the cumulative variance contribution rate is 66.748%. The Cronbach α coefficient of the scale is 0.836,and the coefficients of sub-scales are between 0.724 and 0.813. The CFA shows that the structure validity is good,and χ2/df is 1.824.GFI,AFI and AGFI are above 0.9,while RMSEA was 0.047.[Conclusion]The scale is credible and efficient,so it can be used for the measurement and evaluation of Chinese sports coaches.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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