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Development and factorial validity of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports, Youth Version – Short Form: Assessment of the psychometric properties

Researchers in sport often try to investigate relations between athletes’ psychological skills and their sports results to predict top athletic achievements or unexpectedly poor performances. The Psychology Skills Inventory for Sports (Youth version), PSIS-Y, was developed to measure psychological c...

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Autores principales: Milavic, Boris, Padulo, Johnny, Grgantov, Zoran, Milić, Mirjana, Mannarini, Stefania, Manzoni, Gian Mauro, Ardigò, Luca Paolo, Rossi, Alessandro
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6695110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31415637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220930
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author Milavic, Boris
Padulo, Johnny
Grgantov, Zoran
Milić, Mirjana
Mannarini, Stefania
Manzoni, Gian Mauro
Ardigò, Luca Paolo
Rossi, Alessandro
author_facet Milavic, Boris
Padulo, Johnny
Grgantov, Zoran
Milić, Mirjana
Mannarini, Stefania
Manzoni, Gian Mauro
Ardigò, Luca Paolo
Rossi, Alessandro
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description Researchers in sport often try to investigate relations between athletes’ psychological skills and their sports results to predict top athletic achievements or unexpectedly poor performances. The Psychology Skills Inventory for Sports (Youth version), PSIS-Y, was developed to measure psychological characteristics of young athletes–differentiating well more talented and less talented young athletes. Nevertheless, previous studies revealed its inadequate, factorial validity. Thus, the aim of this study was to develop and investigate the psychometric proprieties of a brief version of the PSIS-Y (PSIS-Y-SF) in a sample of young Croatian athletes. Participants (n = 304; 188 females and 116 male) were recruited in clubs/teams all over Croatia and all of them competed in the Croatian Championship in youth (n = 157) and junior category (n = 147). The PSIS-Y-SF was derived by ten expert psychologists with five of them who had past experiences of agonistic sport practice. Psychometric analysis included Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), internal consistency analysis (Raykov’s Maximal Reliability), and correlation between subscales. Moreover, Multivariate Analyses of Variance (MANOVA) was run to test statistical differences between the players’ categories (male youth vs. male junior vs. female youth vs. female junior) in all of the subscales. Results of the CFA suggested the adequateness of the supposed six first-order factor solution for the PSIS-Y-SF. The Maximal Reliability statistics suggest a good internal consistency for all of the subscales and the MANOVA suggested differences between the player’s categories. The PSIS-Y-SF resulted to be a valid and reliable tool for the assessment of sports psychological skills. Findings from the psychometric evaluation of PSIS-Y-SF suggest that this is a useful tool, which may further assist in the measurement and conceptualization of sport psychological skills.
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spelling pubmed-66951102019-08-16 Development and factorial validity of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports, Youth Version – Short Form: Assessment of the psychometric properties Milavic, Boris Padulo, Johnny Grgantov, Zoran Milić, Mirjana Mannarini, Stefania Manzoni, Gian Mauro Ardigò, Luca Paolo Rossi, Alessandro PLoS One Research Article Researchers in sport often try to investigate relations between athletes’ psychological skills and their sports results to predict top athletic achievements or unexpectedly poor performances. The Psychology Skills Inventory for Sports (Youth version), PSIS-Y, was developed to measure psychological characteristics of young athletes–differentiating well more talented and less talented young athletes. Nevertheless, previous studies revealed its inadequate, factorial validity. Thus, the aim of this study was to develop and investigate the psychometric proprieties of a brief version of the PSIS-Y (PSIS-Y-SF) in a sample of young Croatian athletes. Participants (n = 304; 188 females and 116 male) were recruited in clubs/teams all over Croatia and all of them competed in the Croatian Championship in youth (n = 157) and junior category (n = 147). The PSIS-Y-SF was derived by ten expert psychologists with five of them who had past experiences of agonistic sport practice. Psychometric analysis included Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), internal consistency analysis (Raykov’s Maximal Reliability), and correlation between subscales. Moreover, Multivariate Analyses of Variance (MANOVA) was run to test statistical differences between the players’ categories (male youth vs. male junior vs. female youth vs. female junior) in all of the subscales. Results of the CFA suggested the adequateness of the supposed six first-order factor solution for the PSIS-Y-SF. The Maximal Reliability statistics suggest a good internal consistency for all of the subscales and the MANOVA suggested differences between the player’s categories. The PSIS-Y-SF resulted to be a valid and reliable tool for the assessment of sports psychological skills. Findings from the psychometric evaluation of PSIS-Y-SF suggest that this is a useful tool, which may further assist in the measurement and conceptualization of sport psychological skills. Public Library of Science 2019-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC6695110/ /pubmed/31415637 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220930 Text en © 2019 Milavic et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Milavic, Boris
Padulo, Johnny
Grgantov, Zoran
Milić, Mirjana
Mannarini, Stefania
Manzoni, Gian Mauro
Ardigò, Luca Paolo
Rossi, Alessandro
Development and factorial validity of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports, Youth Version – Short Form: Assessment of the psychometric properties
title Development and factorial validity of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports, Youth Version – Short Form: Assessment of the psychometric properties
title_full Development and factorial validity of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports, Youth Version – Short Form: Assessment of the psychometric properties
title_fullStr Development and factorial validity of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports, Youth Version – Short Form: Assessment of the psychometric properties
title_full_unstemmed Development and factorial validity of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports, Youth Version – Short Form: Assessment of the psychometric properties
title_short Development and factorial validity of the Psychological Skills Inventory for Sports, Youth Version – Short Form: Assessment of the psychometric properties
title_sort development and factorial validity of the psychological skills inventory for sports, youth version – short form: assessment of the psychometric properties
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6695110/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31415637
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0220930
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