Department of Human Kinetics, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, QC, Canada.
Laboratoire de recherche sur le hockey de l'UQTR, Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières, Trois-Rivieres, QC, Canada.
Percept Mot Skills. 2023 Aug;130(4):1587-1608. doi: 10.1177/00315125231170915. Epub 2023 Apr 26.
Perceived competence plays a crucial role in establishing environments favorable to individual development in youth sport. As most assessment tools of perceived competence are not sport-specific, they have limited usefulness for sport practitioners and researchers. This study had two-fold aims: (i) to develop a perceived competence assessment tool specific to ice hockey; and (ii) to examine its factorial structure and internal consistency. We first developed an initial 29-item version of this ice hockey competence self-report scale, using a group of ice hockey stakeholders and sports science experts to develop the items and a pilot sample of 42 hockey players to confirm test-retest reliability. Finally, we validated the scale among a cohort of 770 adolescent ice hockey players ( age = 14.78, = 1.60 years). Results from exploratory factor analysis (EFA) revealed that perceived competence in ice hockey was defined by six dimensions, with rejection of seven items. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) suggested that the 6-factor first order model was the best fit with the conceptualization of perceived competence in ice hockey (CFI = 0.938, RMSEA = 0.044). The final, 22-item questionnaire now provides a reliable and valid measure of perceived competence in hockey for adolescent participants. It has promise for evaluating future interventions aiming to foster young athletes' perceived confidence through sport.
在青少年体育运动中，感知能力对于营造有利于个体发展的环境起着至关重要的作用。由于大多数感知能力的评估工具都不具有运动特异性，因此它们对运动从业者和研究人员的用处有限。本研究有两个目的：（i）开发一种专门针对冰球的感知能力评估工具；（ii）检验其结构和内部一致性。我们首先使用一组冰球利益相关者和运动科学专家来开发项目，并使用 42 名冰球运动员的试点样本来确认重测信度，从而开发了这个冰球能力自评量表的初始 29 项版本。最后，我们在 770 名青少年冰球运动员（年龄=14.78，=1.60 岁）队列中验证了该量表。探索性因素分析（EFA）的结果表明，冰球感知能力由六个维度定义，拒绝了七个项目。验证性因素分析（CFA）表明，6 因素一阶模型最符合冰球感知能力的概念化（CFI=0.938，RMSEA=0.044）。最终的 22 项问卷现在为青少年参与者提供了一种可靠且有效的冰球感知能力测量工具。它有望评估未来旨在通过体育运动培养年轻运动员自信心的干预措施。
