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Development and Validation of Parental Support Scale of Children's Sports Training in China: Socio-Ecological
1School of Physical Education and Sport Training, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China.
Objectives:
To promote Chinese children participation in sports training and acquisition of sports skills, we combined a social ecological research framework with parental support to develop the Parental Support for Children's Sports Training Scale (PSCSTS).
Methods:
The scale was initially developed based on literature review, group interviews, and expert evaluations. A complete reliability and validity test was conducted on 1,594 parents of primary and secondary schools in Shanghai.
Results:
The PSCSTS has 37 questions, and exploratory factor analysis has formed 10 factors: policy support, parents' financial support, community support, media support, sports development, school activity participation, parents' exercise habits, training quality support, development of school sports activities, learning skills. The higher-order models constructed by validated factor analysis fit well (χ 2/df = 2.130, RMSEA = 0.038, SRMR = 0.042, GFI = 0.911, CFI = 0.928). The Parents of children of different sexes have measurement invariance in the PSCSTS.
Conclusion:
The PSCSTS developed in this study based on a social-ecological framework has high reliability and validity, and can be used as a comprehensive measure of parental support for their children's sports training.
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