Validation of the athlete psychological strain questionnaire among United States collegiate athletes

IF 3.1 2区心理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Psychology of Sport and Exercise Pub Date : 2025-07-03 DOI:10.1016/j.psychsport.2025.102933

Jackie Yang, Mike C. Parent

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Abstract

Psychological strain is an important facet of mental health amongst athletes. Having proper assessment tools for psychological strain can contribute to the screening for and prevention of negative mental health among athletes. The Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire, is a 10-item instrument used to assess psychological strain amongst athletes. The scale has been validated among samples of elite athletes. Despite psychological strain being relevant to collegiate athletes, the questionnaire has not been fully investigated among this group. Moreover, previous studies have not investigated invariance of the measure by gender. The present study aimed to assess the factor structure of the Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire, measurement invariance across gender, and associations between the Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire scores and other relevant measures, using a national sample of 1726 American collegiate athletes (M_age = 20.10, SD_age = 1.83). The sample was randomly partitioned into exploratory (n = 403) and confirmatory (n = 1323) samples. Factor analysis and measurement invariance testing were conducted. Factor analysis results indicated a three-factor structure with good fit indices and is consistent with prior literature. Measurement invariance was established for men and women collegiate athletes. The correlations between the Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire and relevant constructs were assessed. The Athlete Psychological Strain Questionnaire may be a viable questionnaire to assess for psychological strain among collegiate athletes.

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美国大学生运动员心理应变问卷的验证

心理紧张是运动员心理健康的一个重要方面。拥有合适的心理压力评估工具，有助于运动员心理健康不良的筛查和预防。运动员心理压力问卷，是一个包含10个项目的工具，用于评估运动员的心理压力。该量表已在优秀运动员样本中得到验证。尽管心理紧张与大学生运动员有关，但问卷调查尚未在这一群体中得到充分调查。此外，以前的研究没有调查性别的不变性。本研究以1726名美国大学生运动员为样本（Mage = 20.10, SDage = 1.83），评估《运动员心理紧张问卷》的因子结构、测量结果在性别上的不变性以及得分与其他相关测量的相关性。样本随机分为探索性样本（n = 403）和验证性样本（n = 1323）。进行因子分析和测量不变性检验。因子分析结果显示具有三因子结构，拟合指数较好，与文献一致。建立了男女大学生运动员的测量不变性。评估运动员心理应变问卷与相关构念的相关性。《运动员心理应变问卷》是一份可行的大学生运动员心理应变评估问卷。

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Psychology of Sport and Exercise 医学-心理学

CiteScore

6.40

自引率

5.90%

发文量

172

审稿时长

69 days

期刊介绍： Psychology of Sport and Exercise is an international forum for scholarly reports in the psychology of sport and exercise, broadly defined. The journal is open to the use of diverse methodological approaches. Manuscripts that will be considered for publication will present results from high quality empirical research, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, commentaries concerning already published PSE papers or topics of general interest for PSE readers, protocol papers for trials, and reports of professional practice (which will need to demonstrate academic rigour and go beyond mere description). The CONSORT guidelines consort-statement need to be followed for protocol papers for trials; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the CONSORT checklist. For meta-analysis, the PRISMA prisma-statement guidelines should be followed; authors should present a flow diagramme and attach with their cover letter the PRISMA checklist. For systematic reviews it is recommended that the PRISMA guidelines are followed, although it is not compulsory. Authors interested in submitting replications of published studies need to contact the Editors-in-Chief before they start their replication. We are not interested in manuscripts that aim to test the psychometric properties of an existing scale from English to another language, unless new validation methods are used which address previously unanswered research questions.