Measuring dual career motivation among German student-athletes using the Student Athletes’ Motivation Toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire
- 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 differentWith 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.…
Verfasserangaben: | Maike NiehuesORCiD, Erin GerlachORCiDGND, Jeffrey SallenORCiDGND |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12662-021-00723-9 |
ISSN: | 2509-3142 |
ISSN: | 2509-3150 |
Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | German journal of exercise and sport research : Sportwissenschaft / Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Deutscher Olympischer Sportbund, Deutsche Vereinigung für Sportwissenschaft |
Untertitel (Englisch): | Challenges and failures of linguistic and cultural adaptations |
übersetzter Titel (Deutsch): | Messung der Motivation deutscher Schüler-Athleten und -Athletinnen in der dualen Karriere mithilfe des Student Athletes’ Motivation Toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire - Herausforderungen und Scheitern sprachlicher und kultureller Anpassungen |
Verlag: | Springer |
Verlagsort: | Berlin ; Heidelberg |
Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Datum der Erstveröffentlichung: | 18.06.2021 |
Erscheinungsjahr: | 2021 |
Datum der Freischaltung: | 27.09.2023 |
Freies Schlagwort / Tag: | Cross-culture; Elite sport; Expectancy-value; Factor-analysis; SAMSAQ; Translation |
Band: | 51 |
Ausgabe: | 3 |
Seitenanzahl: | 6 |
Erste Seite: | 378 |
Letzte Seite: | 383 |
Fördernde Institution: | German Federal Institute of Sport Science [071102/16-21]; Ministry of Education, Youth and Sport of the Federal State of Brandenburg (Germany) |
Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Sport- und Gesundheitswissenschaften |
DDC-Klassifikation: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 33 Wirtschaft / 330 Wirtschaft |
7 Künste und Unterhaltung / 79 Sport, Spiele, Unterhaltung / 796 Sportarten, Sportspiele | |
Peer Review: | Referiert |
Publikationsweg: | Open Access / Hybrid Open-Access |
Lizenz (Deutsch): | CC-BY - Namensnennung 4.0 International |