Development and validation of the compliant and principled sportspersonship scale

Perry, John L.; Clough, Peter J.; Crust, Lee; Nabb, Sam L.; Nicholls, Adam R.

Abstract

A new measure of sportspersonship that differentiates between compliance and principled decisions was developed and validated in three studies. In Study 1, a 71-item questionnaire was developed and administered to 357 sports participants, before principal component analysis (PCA) reduced the questionnaire to a 7-factor, 37-item scale. Subsequently, Study 2 tested this revised questionnaire among a sample of 502 sports participants in a series of confirmatory factor analyses (CFA), suggesting a 28-item and 6-factor model was a good fit. Study 3 supported the construct validity of the scale using a sample of 176 athletes, providing evidence for the concurrent and discriminant validity of the scale. The Compliant and Principled Sportspersonship Scale (CAPSS) is proposed as a valid and reliable measure of sportspersonship

Citation

Perry, J. L., Clough, P. J., Crust, L., Nabb, S. L., & Nicholls, A. R. (2015). Development and validation of the compliant and principled sportspersonship scale. Research quarterly for exercise and sport, 86(1), 71-80. https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2014.980938

• Acceptance Date: Jun 23, 2014
• Publication Date: Jan 2, 2015
• Deposit Date: May 5, 2015
• Publicly Available Date: May 5, 2015
• Journal: Research quarterly for exercise and sport
• Print ISSN: 0270-1367
• Publisher: Routledge
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 86
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 71-80
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02701367.2014.980938
• Keywords: Sportspersonship, Moral behaviour, Factor analysis
• Public URL: https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/373342
• Publisher URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02701367.2014.980938#.VUi92k90zG4
• Additional Information: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Research quarterly for exercise and sport on 01/12/2014, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/02701367.2014.980938
• Contract Date: May 5, 2015