Beyond Composite Scores and Cronbach's Alpha: Advancing Methodological Rigor in Recreation Research

Autor/inn/en	Gagnon, Ryan J.; Stone, Garrett A.; Garst, Barry A.
Titel	Beyond Composite Scores and Cronbach's Alpha: Advancing Methodological Rigor in Recreation Research
Quelle	In: Journal of Outdoor Recreation, Education, and Leadership, 9 (2017) 4, S.383-402 (20 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1948-5123
Schlagwörter	Recreation; Recreational Programs; Educational Research; Research Methodology; Research Problems; Research Design; Statistical Analysis; Psychometrics; Predictive Validity; Predictive Measurement; Parent Aspiration; Parent Attitudes; Adventure Education; Questionnaires; Test Reliability; Test Validity; Competition; Factor Analysis; Parent Participation; Elementary Secondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Re-creation; Erholung; Freizeitplanung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Forschungskritik; Forschungsdesign; Statistische Analyse; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Elternwille; Elternverhalten; Adventure pedagogics; Abenteuerpädagogik; Erlebnispädagogik; Fragebogen; Testreliabilität; Testvalidität; Wettkampf; Faktorenanalyse; Elternmitwirkung
Abstract	Critically examining common statistical approaches and their strengths and weaknesses is an important step in advancing recreation and leisure sciences. To continue this critical examination and to inform methodological decision making, this study compared three approaches to determine how alternative approaches may result in contradictory conclusions in the interpretation of the psychometric properties of a scale and in response to a given research question. To this end, this study explored what factors best predicted parental endorsement of competition climbing in a sample of 184 parents of youth competition climbers. The study findings suggest that the three distinct approaches provided meaningfully different conclusions regarding the adapted psychometric properties of the questionnaire, but offered no meaningful differences in the primary finding of the study: Parent-coach relationship quality is the best predictor of parental endorsement of competition climbing. The results suggest that deeper examination of self-report questionnaire data may advance our understanding of complex recreation and leisure constructs beyond what can be understood with less advanced analytic techniques. (As Provided).
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