Adaptation and Validation of Sport-Confidence Measure to Gymnasts and Football Players

Frischknecht, Gabriela; Pesca, Andréa Duarte; Cruz, Roberto Moraes

doi:10.1590/1413-82712016210308

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Papers • Psico-USF 21 (3) • Sep-Dec 2016 • https://doi.org/10.1590/1413-82712016210308 copy

Adaptation and Validation of Sport-Confidence Measure to Gymnasts and Football Players

Adaptação e Validação de Medida de Autoconfiança para Atletas de Ginástica e Futebol

Adaptación y Validación de Medida de Autoconfianza para Deportistas de Gimnasia y Fútbol

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Abstract

This study aimed to adapt the Sport-Confidence Inventory to Brazilian athletes and to investigate validity and reliability of adapted instrument. Elite athletes from 12 to 22 years of age that practice artistic gymnastics, rhythm gymnastics or football have participated in the study. The research procedures were: a) to realize the transcultural adaptation of SCI; b) to investigate evidences of content validity by pilot study; c) to investigate the construct validity, by principal component analysis; and d) to investigate reliability evidences by analysis of Cronbach's alpha values of the adapted instrument. Results showed reliability evidences of the instrument to the application in gymnasts and football players. Construct validity indicated different composition to the subscales in each group. Future research may improve the semantic quality of Questionário de Autoconfiança no Esporte, considering the particularities of each sport.

Keywords:
self-confidence; psychometrics; sport psychology

Types of self-confidence	Description	Items
Confidence in physical skills and training	Athlete's level of certainty they will be able to be successful in their physical sport skills	1; 4; 7; 10; 13
Confidence in cognitive efficiency	Athlete's level of certainty they will be able to be successful in their cognitive sport ability	2; 5; 8; 11
Confidence in resilience	Athlete's level of certainty they will be able to handle adverse situations	3; 6; 9; 12; 14

	SCI	QAE
?	How certain are you that...?	Você acredita que...?
7	Totally certain (absolutely sure I can without a doubt)	Absolutamente certo (tenho certeza que sim)
6	Very certain (very sure I can)	Praticamente certo (quase certeza que sim)
5	Fairly certain (I feel like I can)	Bastante certo (acho que sim)
4	Maybe I can	Talvez (tenho dúvidas)
3	Fairly uncertain (I have doubts)	Bastante incerto (acho que não)
2	Very uncertain (pretty sure I can't)	Praticamente incerto (quase certeza que não)
1	Can't do it at all (absolutely not at all)	Não posso fazer de jeito nenhum (absolutamente não)

Items	Component1	Component2	Component3	Component4
1. Physical performance skills	0.399		0.693
4. Sufficient physical training	0.845
7. Physical aptitude for competing	0.615			0.443
8. Effective tactical strategy	0.307			0.732
10. Sport-specific physical skills	0.512		0.590
13. Physical preparation for competing	0.828
3. Recovery after making a mistake		0.731		0.30
5. Important decision-making	0.391	0.339
6. Focus after making a mistake		0.726		0.356
9. Overcoming negative thoughts		0.672
12. Overcoming mishaps		0.575	0.369
14. Controlling feelings of uneasiness		0.502		0.497
2. Focus during competitions			0.664	0.478
11. Keeping focused		0.363	0.669

Items	Component 1	Component 2	Component 3
3. Recovery after making a mistake	0.634
6. Focus after making a mistake	0.744
9. Overcoming negative thoughts	0.781
12. Overcoming mishaps	0.575		0.415
14. Controlling feelings of uneasiness	0.682
1. Physical performance skills	0.399	0.558
4. Sufficient physical training		0.767
7. Physical aptitude for competing		0.672
10. Sport-specific physical skills		0.724
13. Physical preparation for competing		0.788
2. Focus during competitions	0.375		0.456
5. Important decision-making			0.630
8. Effective tactical strategy			0.799
11. Keeping focused	0.303		0.656

Items	Component 1	Component 2	Component 3
1. Physical performance skills	0.400		0.412
4. Sufficient physical training	0.854
7. Physical aptitude for competing	0.689
10. Sport-specific physical skills	0.629
13. Physical preparation for competing	0.816
3. Recovery after making a mistake		0.781
6. Focus after making a mistake		0.787
9. Overcoming negative thoughts		0.708
12. Overcoming mishaps		0.518
2. Focus during competitions			0.8
5. Important decision-making			0.364
8. Effective tactical strategy			0.454
11. Keeping focused			0.729
14. Controlling feelings of uneasiness			0.521

Types of sport-confidence	Vealey (2003Vealey, R. S. (2003). Conceptualization and Measurement of Multidimensional Sport-Confidence: A Social Cognitive Approach. Unpublished manuscript, Miami University, Oxford/Ohio.)	Data in file (2014)
	α SCI	α gymnasts	α soccer players
Physical skills and training	0.87	0.78	0.77
Cognitive Efficiency	0.84	0.61	0.7
Resilience	0.85	0.72	0.79
Scale's total	0.93	0.82	0.85

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