Measurement invariance of the empowering and disempowering motivational climate questionnaire-coach in youth sport
Appleton, Paul R. (Manchester Metropolitan University. Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences)
Viladrich, Carme (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Psicobiologia i de Metodologia de Ciències de la Salut)
Quested, Eleanor (Curtin University (Austràlia). Curtin School of Population Health)
González-García, Lorena (Universitat de València. Departament de Psicologia Social)
Papaioannou, Athanasios (University of Thessaly (Grècia). Department of Physical Education and Sport Science)
Hall, Howard K. (Retired, Sutton on the Forest, York, United Kingdom)
Balaguer Solá, Isabel (Universitat de València. Departament de Psicologia Social)
Ramis Laloux, Yago (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Departament de Psicologia Bàsica, Evolutiva i de l'Educació)
Sarrazin, Philippe (Université de Grenoble-Alpes)
Heuzé, Jean-Philippe (Université de Grenoble-Alpes)
Ommundsen, Yngvar (Norwegian School of Sport Sciences. Department of Sport and Social Sciences)
Wold, Bente (University of Bergen (Noruega). Department of Health Promotion and Development)
Samdal, Oddrun (University of Bergen (Noruega). Department of Health Promotion and Development)
Duda, Joan L. (University of Birmingham. School of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation Sciences, College of Life and Environmental Sciences)

Date:	2023
Abstract:	The purpose of this study was to test the measurement invariance (across five languages, two time points, and two experimental conditions) of the empowering and disempowering motivational climate questionnaire-coach (EDMCQ-C; ) when completed by 9256 young sport participants (M age = 11. 53 years, SD = 1. 39 years; 13. 5% female). Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling was used to test the validity of a 2-factor (empowering and disempowering) model running a multiple group analysis without any equality constraint (configural invariance) followed by measurement invariance of factor loadings and thresholds (scalar invariance). Findings provided support for partial invariance across languages and scalar invariance across time and experimental groups. The factors were interpretable across the analyses, and items loaded as intended by theory except for item 15. This study provides further evidence regarding the psychometric properties of the EDMCQ-C and suggests this scale (minus item 15) can be used to provide meaningful latent mean comparisons () of empowering and disempowering coach-created climates across athletes speaking the five targeted languages, across time, and across experimental groups.
Grants:	European Commission FP7/2007e2013/no.223600
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	AGT ; SDT ; Sport ; Youth ; ESEM ; Invariance
Published in:	Frontiers in psychology, Vol. 13 (january 2023) , ISSN 1664-1078

DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.958444
PMID: 36687840

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