TY  - JOUR
A1  - Niehues, Maike
A1  - Gerlach, Erin
A1  - Sallen, Jeffrey
T1  - Measuring dual career motivation among German student-athletes using the Student Athletes’ Motivation Toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire
T2  - German journal of exercise and sport research : Sportwissenschaft / Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft
N2  - With the 2012 EU guidelines on dual careers (DC), DC research gained increasing awareness in Europe focussing particularly on student-athletes' motivation. The Student Athletes' Motivation toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire (SAMSAQ), arguably the most prominent instrument in this research area, has been used in various cross-cultural studies assessing DC motivation. The present investigation contributes to the cross-cultural discourse aiming to (1) adapt the SAMSAQ for the German context and adolescent secondary school student-athletes, and (2) evaluate the German pre-version. A sample of 208 student-athletes (52.4% females, mean age = 17.4 years, 49.5% at squad level) at three German Elite Sport Schools participated in the study. The investigation was split into two parts. First, the SAMSAQ was adapted to the German context and tested. In the second part, the first pre-version was revised. A series of exploratory factor analyses were applied to verify the factor structure of both German SAMSAQ pre-versions. Eight different factor models based on item removal were compared. Neither model demonstrated good results for the replication of previous findings or a meaningful solution in terms of content. Reasons for the deviations between the original and target SAMSAQ factor structures can be found in the different target groups and the culturally different approaches to career assistant programmes as well as in the theoretical background of the instrument. Since neither model was identified as acceptable, the findings indicate that a new instrument needs to be developed for assessing student-athletes' DC motivation along their pathways in different cross-cultural contexts.
KW  - SAMSAQ
KW  - Factor-analysis
KW  - Expectancy-value
KW  - Translation
KW  - Cross-culture
KW  - Elite sport
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/60278
SN  - 2509-3142
SN  - 2509-3150
VL  - 51
IS  - 3
SP  - 378
EP  - 383
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin ; Heidelberg
ER  -