Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Version of the Life Skills Scale for Sport

Abstract

This research adapted the Life Skills Scale for Sport (LSSS) into Portuguese and provided evidence for its construct validity. Study 1 included four translators and five academics who developed a Portuguese version of the LSSS (P-LSSS). During this study, evidence for the content and substantive aspects of construct validity was provided using an expert panel and 25 sports participants. Study 2 included 413 participants that completed the P-LSSS. Within this study, evidence for the structural aspect of construct validity was provided via factor analyses. Study 3 included 134 participants who completed the P-LSSS and a measure of motivation. This study provided evidence for the external aspect of construct validity, with results showing more self-determined motivation had positive relationships with participant's life skills development.

Life Skills Development Through Sport in Brazil: A Study Based on Self-Determination Theory

“…Contrary to our hypothesis, participants in the high life skills development cluster did not differ on their scores for intrinsic motivation and integrated regulation (i.e., the other self-determined forms of motivation). Overall, our findings contrasted with results from do Nascimento-Junior et al (2019) who found that all three forms of self-determined motivation had positive relationships with participant's life skills development in sport. Similarly, research by Inoue et al (2015) found that self-determined motivation was positively related to developmental outcomes in youth sports participants.…”

“…Based on past tudies (Cronin & Allen, 2019;Freire et al, 2020), we hypothesized that participants in the high life skills development cluster would be of a higher age and have more years of experience in their sport. Regarding SDT related-variables, we hypothesized that participants in the high life skills development cluster would score higher for coach autonomy support Freire et al, 2020), autonomy, competence, and relatedness satisfaction (Cronin et al, 2019(Cronin et al, , 2020, intrinsic motivation, integrated regulation, and identified regulation (Nascimento-Junior et al, 2019), and that they would score lower for introjected regulation, external regulation, and amotivation, as compared to the low life skills development cluster.…”

“…Nonetheless, a critique of these literature to date is that the vast majority of research on life skills development through sport has taken place in North America -namely the United States and Canada (Santos et al, 2016). Although, it is important to highlight that some studies have begun to occur in other countries, such as the United Kingdom, Brazil and Portugal Nascimento-Junior et al, 2019;Santos et al, 2016). Brazilian researchers, Ciampolini et al (2020), proposed a model based on three principles and five procedures to assist coaches in developing young people through sport.…”

A Cross-Cultural Adaptation of the Collective Efficacy Questionnaire for Sports (CEQS): Validity Evidence for a Brazilian Version

“…The participants in this stage had no doubts about the terms/items, and the Portuguese version of CEQS was maintained for the next stage. This approach of using a small sample of participants to verify the comprehension of items within the target population has been utilized in other scale validation studies (e.g., Nascimento-Junior et al., 2020).…”

Actividad fisiológica, alimenticia y psicológica de los adultos mayores durante la cuarentena del Covid-19 en el Centro de Atención Integral (CEAM) la Delicia. Quito, Ecuador

“…La función física es la capacidad de un individuo para realizar las actividades físicas de la vida diaria. La función física refleja la función y el control motor, la aptitud física y la AF habitual (Andrade et al, 2020).…”