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. 2018 Mar 23:61:217-225.
doi: 10.1515/hukin-2017-0138. eCollection 2018 Mar.

Validation and Reliability of the Korean Version of the Sport Anxiety Scale-2

Seongkwan Cho  1 , Hunhyuk Choi  2 , Robert C Eklund  3 , Insu Paek  4
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Validation and Reliability of the Korean Version of the Sport Anxiety Scale-2

Seongkwan Cho et al. J Hum Kinet. .

Abstract

The main purpose of the present study was to examine the validation and reliability of the Korean version of the Sport Anxiety Scale (SAS-2Kr) by evaluating its factorial invariance across gender. A total of 303 Korean collegiate athletes (198 males and 105 females) from 9 sports participated in the study, and they completed the demographic questionnaire and the SAS-2Kr containing 15 items to measure multidimensional trait anxiety and individual differences in the cognitive and somatic anxiety experienced by athletes. The results of this study indicated that the construct validity in the SAS-2Kr was well established in that the values of the standardized factor loadings, composite reliability, and average variance extracted values were above the recommended cutoff points. The multiple-sample confirmatory factor analyses showed the SAS-2Kr could be generalizable across gender in college samples. The results also indicated that the SAS-2Kr supported the original 3-factor model of SAS-2 in English consisting of somatic anxiety, worry, and concentration disruption, and thus this study provides useful information for researchers to understand the athletes' tendency to experience anxiety reactions in sport situations. Suggestions for future research on competitive trait anxiety are provided in the discussion section.

Keywords: competitive anxiety; confirmatory factor analysis (CFA); factorial invariance; trait anxiety; validation.

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