- Title
- Confirmatory factor analysis of measures of sport imagery ability and use
- Creator
- Watt, Anthony; Spittle, Michael; Jaakkola, Timo; Morris, Tony
- Date
- 2003
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/44830
- Identifier
- vital:3757
- Abstract
- Demonstrations of the CFA process in the context of imagery abilities and imagery use assessment are severely lacking. Presently, very few imagery measures from either general or sport psychology have had their factor structure confirmed using structural equation modeling to. Irrespective of the accepted difficulties in the assessment of the imagery process, understanding in the field can only be enhanced through the application of appropriate statistical tools to demonstrate the relationship between measured variables and latent constructs. This paper details the examination of the factor structures of the Sport Imagery Ability Measure (SIAM) and the Sport Imagery Questionnaire (SIQ), using structural equation modeling. Confirmatory models of the key characteristics of mental imagery in relation to sport are also discussed. The SIAM is a 48-item self-report measure that uses four sport-related scenes to examine the dimensional, sensorial, and emotional characteristics of generating images. The SIQ is a 30-item self-report measure that examines five characteristics associated with the cognitive and motivational aspects of imagery use. Participants (N = 514) from universities and elite sport groups in Australia, England, and Finland completed the measures. Confirmatory factor analyses of models proposed by the authors of each measure were conducted using AMOS 4.0 software. The SIAM threefactor model was a reasonable to good fit for the data with all fit indices except for the RMSEA (0.12) at or above accepted minima. A five-factor model tested for the SIQ did not result in as many acceptable fit indices, with only the RMSEA (0.07) indicating a good fit. Alternative models for both measures are examined and the implications of these findings in relation to both the evaluation and conceptualization of sport imagery are discussed.
- Publisher
- Copenhagen, Denmark :
- Relation
- Paper presented at XIth European Congress of Sport Psychology, Copenhagen, Denmark : 22nd-27th July 2003
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Imagery; Sport
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