Elite Athlete Commitment Scale

Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the Commitment-to-School Scale Using a Sample of Junior High School Youth in Ghana

“…The adaptation and validation of a commitment to school measure is an important contribution to education research and programs in Ghana. The absence of a standardized CSS meant that researchers and practitioners paid little attention to the relevance of student commitment to educational outcomes (Ramadas et al, 2013). Even when researchers investigated the role of student commitment in low academic achievement in Ghana, they did not employ tailored measures of commitment that accounted for key domains of student commitment.…”

“…To build on prior education research, we adapted this framework of commitment to organizations to guide our identification of dimensions that make up the commitment-to-school construct in the Ghanaian context (Meyer & Allen, 1997). We borrow from the multidimensional framework not only because prior studies have done so but also-and most importantly-because we find parallels between students' commitment to school, a social organization, and employees' commitment to the workplace (McShane, 2004;Ramadas et al, 2013).…”

“…Despite growing empirical evidence of the importance of student commitment to school and educational outcomes, many education studies in Ghana do not account for it. The lack of a unified theoretical specification of what constitutes commitment to school and the consequential lack of psychometric assessment of standardized measurement scales for the construct are two reasons for the limited research on students' commitment to school (Ramadas, Serpa, Rosado, Gouveia, & Maroco, 2013). Without the adaptation and evaluation of a CSS that is applicable to the Ghanaian context, education researchers do not have a valid and reliable measure of the construct and cannot account for how students' commitment may be associated with educational outcomes.…”

Is a cyberathlete an athlete? Brazilian athlete perspectives

“…To achieve specialization that leads to professionalization, a high dose of dedication is required to every duty involving the technical improvement. This implies in abdicating from a social and even school life, making the athlete to be differentiated from other young people from the same age group (Ramadas at al., 2013;Schneider, 2015;Costa et al, 2021). In this way, dedication is a gesture related to the fulfillment of a goal involving the willingness to act and discipline for its achievement, thus generating adhesion to the principles guiding such action.…”