RT Journal Article
T1 Preliminary Empirical Validation of the “Basic Needs Satisfaction in Sport Scale” With a Sample of Spanish Athletes
A1 Francisco Palacios, Cristina de
A1 Parra Plaza, Francisco José
A1 Arce Fernández, Constantino
A1 Vílchez, Pilar
K1 Basic psychological needs
K1 Sport
K1 Spanish
K1 Validity
K1 Reliability
AB The theory of self-determination establishes the existence of three basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence, and relationship). If these needs are satisfied, optimal personal well-being will be achieved. The Basic Needs Satisfactions in Sport Scale (BNSSS) is a measurement developed to evaluate these needs within the sporting context. The BNSSS measures the satisfaction of the three basic psychological needs through 20 items distributed in five dimensions: autonomy-choice, autonomy-volition, autonomy-perceived locus of internal causality, competence, and relatedness. The purpose of this study is to validate a Spanish version of the BNSSS. The sample were 441 team athletes with a mean age of 17.46 (SD = 3.59), which 46.5% were men and the remaining percentage (53.5%) were women. After a standardised data collection, confirmatory factor analysis and invariance analyses were performed, as well as composite reliability. The obtained version showed a good overall fit of the model and values of composite reliability higher to 0.70. Therefore, a useful tool for assessing basic psychological needs in team sports was obtained.
PB Frontiers Media
YR 2018
FD 2018-06-27
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20137
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/20137
LA eng
NO De Francisco C, Parra FJ, Arce C and Vílchez MDP (2018) Preliminary Empirical Validation of the “Basic Needs Satisfaction in Sport Scale” With a Sample of Spanish Athletes. Front. Psychol. 9:1057. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01057
NO This work was supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of Spain under Grant PSI2014-56935-P.
DS Minerva
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