Martens Matthew P, Webber S Nicole
1 University of Missouri-Columbia.
J Sport Exerc Psychol. 2002 Sep;24(3):254-270. doi: 10.1123/jsep.24.3.254.
Motivation, particularly different types of motivation (i.e., intrinsic, extrinsic, and amotivation), is a topic that has been of interest to both psychologists and sport psychologists. One area of interest in sport psychology is the assessment of different types of motivation. The Sport Motivation Scale (SMS) (Pelletier et al., 1995) was created to assess an athlete's intrinsic motivation, extrinsic-motivation, and a motivation toward sport participation. The psychometric properties of the SMS, however, have not been tested on a sample of college athletes in the U.S., which is an important component if researchers and applied sport psychologists are to use the SMS with this population. A total of 270 U.S. college athletes participated in this study. Results provided some evidence for the reliability and validity of the SMS for this population, although a confirmatory factor analysis yielded relatively poor fit indices, indicating problems with model specification. A "piecewise" model testing approach, in which different components of the model were tested separately, indicated that the biggest problems with model specification may involve the extrinsic and amotivation components of the measure.
动机，尤其是不同类型的动机（即内在动机、外在动机和无动机），一直是心理学家和运动心理学家感兴趣的话题。运动心理学中一个感兴趣的领域是对不同类型动机的评估。运动动机量表（SMS）（佩尔蒂埃等人，1995年）旨在评估运动员的内在动机、外在动机以及对运动参与的动机。然而，SMS的心理测量特性尚未在美国大学生运动员样本上进行测试，如果研究人员和应用运动心理学家要对这一人群使用SMS，这是一个重要的组成部分。共有270名美国大学生运动员参与了这项研究。结果为SMS在这一人群中的信度和效度提供了一些证据，尽管验证性因素分析得出的拟合指数相对较差，表明模型设定存在问题。一种“分段”模型测试方法，即分别测试模型的不同组成部分，表明模型设定的最大问题可能涉及该测量方法的外在动机和无动机组成部分。
