TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sallen, Jeffrey
A1  - Hirschmann, Florian
A1  - Herrmann, Christian
T1  - Evaluation and Adaption of the Trier Inventory for Chronic Stress (TICS) for Assessment in Competitive Sports
JF  - Frontiers in psychology
N2  - The demands of a career in competitive sports can lead to chronic stress perception among athletes if there is a non-conformity of requirements and available coping resources. The Trier Inventory for Chronic Stress (TICS) (Schulz et al., 2004) is said to be thoroughly validated. Nevertheless, it has not yet been subjected to a confirmatory factor analysis. The present study aims (1) to evaluate the factorial validity of the TICS within the context of competitive sports and (2) to adapt a short version (TICS-36). The total sample consisted of 564 athletes (age in years: M = 19.1, SD = 3.70). The factor structure of the original TICS did not adequately fit the present data, whereas the short version presented a satisfactory fit. The results indicate that the TICS-36 is an economical instrument for gathering interpretable information about chronic stress. For assessment in competitive sports with TICS-36, we generated overall and gender-specific norm values.
KW  - chronic stressors
KW  - mental health
KW  - athletes
KW  - stress measurement
KW  - Olympic sports
KW  - factor analysis
KW  - measurement invariance
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00308
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 9
PB  - Frontiers Research Foundation
CY  - Lausanne
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Brandt, Naemi D.
A1  - Becker, Michael
A1  - Tetzner, Julia
A1  - Brunner, Martin
A1  - Kuhl, Poldi
A1  - Maaz, Kai
T1  - Personality across the lifespan exploring measurement invariance of a short Big Five Inventory from ages 11 to 84
JF  - European journal of psychological assessment
N2  - Personality is a relevant predictor for important life outcomes across the entire lifespan. Although previous studies have suggested the comparability of the measurement of the Big Five personality traits across adulthood, the generalizability to childhood is largely unknown. The present study investigated the structure of the Big Five personality traits assessed with the Big Five Inventory-SOEP Version (BFI-S; SOEP = Socio-Economic Panel) across a broad age range spanning 11-84 years. We used two samples of N = 1,090 children (52% female, M-age = 11.87) and N = 18,789 adults (53% female, M-age = 51.09), estimating a multigroup CFA analysis across four age groups (late childhood: 11-14 years; early adulthood: 17-30 years; middle adulthood: 31-60 years; late adulthood: 61-84 years). Our results indicated the comparability of the personality trait metric in terms of general factor structure, loading patterns, and the majority of intercepts across all age groups. Therefore, the findings suggest both a reliable assessment of the Big Five personality traits with the BFI-S even in late childhood and a vastly comparable metric across age groups.
KW  - personality traits
KW  - measurement invariance
KW  - ESEM
KW  - lifespan
KW  - late
KW  - childhood
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1027/1015-5759/a000490
SN  - 1015-5759
SN  - 2151-2426
VL  - 36
IS  - 1
SP  - 162
EP  - 173
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Göttingen
ER  -