Malete Leapetswe, Ricketts Chelsi, Kim Sehee, Tshube Tshepang, Mphela Thuso, Adamba Clement, Ocansey Reginald
Department of Kinesiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.
Department of Educational Administration, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, United States.
Front Psychol. 2022 Apr 28;13:858406. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.858406. eCollection 2022.
With the growing interest in sport-based positive youth development (PYD) programs across the African continent, there is a need to establish suitable measures to evaluate the success of these programs in fostering PYD. The Life Skills Scale for Sport (LSSS) was recently developed as a sport-specific measure of life skills development. Despite its good psychometric properties among British youth sport participants, cross-cultural evidence indicates differences in the conceptualization of the eight factors measured by the LSSS. To determine the suitability of the LSSS for use in the African youth sport context, this study examined the latent structure and reproducibility of scores produced by the scale in a sample of youth sport participants from Botswana and Ghana. Cross-sectional data from a sample of 495 youth athletes (male = 51.72%), aged 12-21 years ( = 16.76, = 1.58), from junior and senior secondary schools was used in this study. Confirmatory factor analysis and exploratory structural equation modeling were conducted, and conventional fit indices were used to assess model fit. Results on the original LSSS model indicated the need for model re-specification in the current sample. A re-specified LSSS, consisting of the original eight factors, but only 34 of the original 43 items, demonstrated improved fit and adequate internal consistency. Scores derived from the re-specified LSSS proved to be a valid estimate of life skills development in the current sample of youth sport participants. This has important implications for the utility of the LSSS in different cultures.
随着整个非洲大陆对基于体育的青少年积极发展（PYD）项目的兴趣日益浓厚，有必要建立适当的措施来评估这些项目在促进青少年积极发展方面的成效。体育生活技能量表（LSSS）最近被开发出来，作为一种衡量生活技能发展的特定于体育的工具。尽管它在英国青少年体育参与者中具有良好的心理测量特性，但跨文化证据表明，LSSS所测量的八个因素在概念化方面存在差异。为了确定LSSS在非洲青少年体育背景下的适用性，本研究考察了该量表在来自博茨瓦纳和加纳的青少年体育参与者样本中产生的潜在结构和分数的可重复性。本研究使用了来自初中和高中的495名青少年运动员（男性占51.72%）的横断面数据，他们的年龄在12至21岁之间（平均年龄 = 16.76，标准差 = 1.58）。进行了验证性因素分析和探索性结构方程建模，并使用传统的拟合指数来评估模型拟合度。原始LSSS模型的结果表明，当前样本需要对模型进行重新设定。重新设定的LSSS由原来的八个因素组成，但仅包含原来43个条目中的34个，显示出更好的拟合度和足够的内部一致性。从重新设定的LSSS得出的分数被证明是当前青少年体育参与者样本中生活技能发展的有效估计。这对LSSS在不同文化中的实用性具有重要意义。
