Development and initial validation of the coaching life skills in sport questionnaire

Development of a Life Skills Self-Assessment Tool for Coaches

“…The Camiré et al (2021) CLSS-Q was developed as part of a research project funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. As a requirement of funding, knowledge mobilization activities were embedded in the project design, which included creating from the CLSS-Q a knowledge product that could instigate coach reflection.…”

“…As outlined by Straus et al (2013), knowledge translation refers to a dynamic process involving interactions between researchers and knowledge users to make improvements in the application of knowledge, policies, programs, and practices. Specifically, the research team aligned its knowledge translation efforts with the Graham et al (2006) knowledge to action (KTA) framework, whereby several knowledge creation and knowledge synthesis activities (i.e., Bean et al, 2018;Camiré et al, 2021)…”

“…The research team engaged in knowledge translation efforts (e.g., group discussions, pilot testing) to understand how notions from the Bean et al (2018) continuum and the Camiré et al (2021) CLSS-Q could be translated to provide coaches with a useful self-assessment tool. Importantly, KT is an ongoing process, meaning that evaluative efforts will continue to be needed to collect feedback and understand how the tool is distributed and used globally (Holt et al, 2018).…”

“…To advance measurement efforts in youth sport research, Camiré et al (2021) developed the Coaching Life Skills in Sport Questionnaire (CLSS-Q), a self-report measure consistent with the Bean et al (2018) continuum allowing researchers to assess the extent to which coaches are intentional in teaching life skills through sport. During the scale validation process, 1,440 coach participants completed the CLSS-Q, with many sharing with the researchers how answering the items in the scale was very useful in getting them to reflect on their coaching.…”

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the Portuguese Coaching Life Skills in Sport Questionnaire

“…Based on Camiré et al's (2021) suggestion for expanding the CLSS-Q for use beyond English-speaking countries, the purpose of this study was to investigate the cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the CLSS-Q for use in Portuguese-speaking countries (Portuguese version of the CLSS-Q [P-CLSS-Q]). A cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the CLSS-Q to Portuguese is warranted, given the relatively incipient concept of life skills in Portuguesespeaking countries (Ciampolini et al, 2020;Santos et al, 2018) and the rapidly growing interest around this topic in Brazil (e.g., Ciampolini et al, 2020) and Portugal (e.g., Santos et al, 2020).…”