To Investigate Validity and Reliability of Persian Version of Sport Motivation Scale (SMS-6) in University Student Population

Abstract

The aim of the present study was to investigate validity and reliability of Persian version of Sport Motivation Scale (SMS-6). This study was descriptive-correlation and the statistical population consisted of all students of University of Tehran and 241 students (132 men and 109 women, age range 18-30 years) completed the scale. Sport Motivation Scale (SMS-6) was used in this study which included 6 subscales and 24 items with 7-Likert scale. Test-retest method was applied in order to calculate the stability and Cronbach’s alpha was used to determine the internal consistency. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were used to establish construct validity and Pearson correlation test was applied to determine concurrent validity. The data analysis showed that Persian version of Sport Motivation Scale (SMS-6) had acceptable validity and reliability and can be used to evaluate sport motivation construct.

Keywords

• confirmatory factor analysis
• exploratory factor analysis
• reliability
• sport motivation
• validity