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Reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with African athletes’ sample using ordinal factor analytical approach
BACKGROUND: Previous studies have revealed that religious coping strategy is common among athletes due to the stressful experiences before and during competitions as part of the mental preparations they go through, the uncertainty of sporting outcomes, and other organizational issues they encounter....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36687907 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1038202 |
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author | Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi Quansah, Frank Srem-Sai, Medina Ankomah, Francis Hagan, John Elvis Schack, Thomas |
author_facet | Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi Quansah, Frank Srem-Sai, Medina Ankomah, Francis Hagan, John Elvis Schack, Thomas |
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description | BACKGROUND: Previous studies have revealed that religious coping strategy is common among athletes due to the stressful experiences before and during competitions as part of the mental preparations they go through, the uncertainty of sporting outcomes, and other organizational issues they encounter. This research assessed the reproducibility of the Brief Religious Coping (RCOPE) instrument in an African setting using athletes’ samples from different countries. Particularly, the research sought to assess the (1) factor structure of Brief RCOPE with an African sample, (2) construct validity of the RCOPE measure, and (3) measurement invariance of the RCOPE instrument based on gender and nationality. METHODS: The study surveyed a convenient sample of 300 athletes, including 164 male and 136 female athletes, from 3 African countries (Benin, Ghana, and Nigeria) who participated in the 2018 West African University Games. The Brief RCOPE instrument was administered to the athletes for validation purposes before the competition. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted using the ordinal factor analytic approach. RESULTS: This validation study confirmed the two-factor dimension (positive and negative religious coping) of the Brief RCOPE measure. Further, all items for each of the dimensions of the inventory contributed significantly to the measure of the Brief RCOPE domains. The positive and negative religious coping dimensions contributed more than half of the variance of their respective indicators. Measurement invariance across gender and nationality was confirmed. CONCLUSION: Sufficient evidence was gathered to support the interpretation and use of the Brief RCOPE measure. Coaches and sports psychologists could adopt the Brief RCOPE measure to understand the mental or thought patterns of religious athletes based on existential concerns or stress accrued from impending competitions to inform appropriate religious coping interventions. This notwithstanding, the Minimum Clinical Important Difference (MCID) of the Brief RCOPE should be further investigated to enhance the utility of the instrument for use in intervention-based studies. |
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spelling | pubmed-98467672023-01-19 Reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with African athletes’ sample using ordinal factor analytical approach Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi Quansah, Frank Srem-Sai, Medina Ankomah, Francis Hagan, John Elvis Schack, Thomas Front Psychol Psychology BACKGROUND: Previous studies have revealed that religious coping strategy is common among athletes due to the stressful experiences before and during competitions as part of the mental preparations they go through, the uncertainty of sporting outcomes, and other organizational issues they encounter. This research assessed the reproducibility of the Brief Religious Coping (RCOPE) instrument in an African setting using athletes’ samples from different countries. Particularly, the research sought to assess the (1) factor structure of Brief RCOPE with an African sample, (2) construct validity of the RCOPE measure, and (3) measurement invariance of the RCOPE instrument based on gender and nationality. METHODS: The study surveyed a convenient sample of 300 athletes, including 164 male and 136 female athletes, from 3 African countries (Benin, Ghana, and Nigeria) who participated in the 2018 West African University Games. The Brief RCOPE instrument was administered to the athletes for validation purposes before the competition. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses were conducted using the ordinal factor analytic approach. RESULTS: This validation study confirmed the two-factor dimension (positive and negative religious coping) of the Brief RCOPE measure. Further, all items for each of the dimensions of the inventory contributed significantly to the measure of the Brief RCOPE domains. The positive and negative religious coping dimensions contributed more than half of the variance of their respective indicators. Measurement invariance across gender and nationality was confirmed. CONCLUSION: Sufficient evidence was gathered to support the interpretation and use of the Brief RCOPE measure. Coaches and sports psychologists could adopt the Brief RCOPE measure to understand the mental or thought patterns of religious athletes based on existential concerns or stress accrued from impending competitions to inform appropriate religious coping interventions. This notwithstanding, the Minimum Clinical Important Difference (MCID) of the Brief RCOPE should be further investigated to enhance the utility of the instrument for use in intervention-based studies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9846767/ /pubmed/36687907 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1038202 Text en Copyright © 2023 Agormedah, Quansah, Srem-Sai, Ankomah, Hagan and Schack. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi Quansah, Frank Srem-Sai, Medina Ankomah, Francis Hagan, John Elvis Schack, Thomas Reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with African athletes’ sample using ordinal factor analytical approach |
title | Reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with African athletes’ sample using ordinal factor analytical approach |
title_full | Reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with African athletes’ sample using ordinal factor analytical approach |
title_fullStr | Reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with African athletes’ sample using ordinal factor analytical approach |
title_full_unstemmed | Reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with African athletes’ sample using ordinal factor analytical approach |
title_short | Reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with African athletes’ sample using ordinal factor analytical approach |
title_sort | reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with african athletes’ sample using ordinal factor analytical approach |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9846767/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36687907 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1038202 |
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