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Area of Science:

  • Sport Psychology
  • Extreme Sports Research
  • Psychometric Scale Development

Background:

  • Anxiety is central to sport psychology, yet research often overlooks extreme sports.
  • Existing anxiety measures primarily focus on competition, leaving a gap in understanding anxiety's role in high-risk activities like rock climbing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and validate a novel, theoretically grounded scale for measuring anxiety in sport climbing.
  • To provide preliminary evidence for the factorial and criterion-related validity of the Climbing Anxiety Scale (CAS-20).

Main Methods:

  • Phase 1: Development and expert review of the Climbing Anxiety Scale (CAS-20) by 6 sport psychology experts.
  • Phase 2: Validation of the CAS-20 with 153 international rock climbers, including reliability, factorial, convergent, and criterion-related validity analyses.
  • Confirmatory factorial analyses, comparisons with general/sport anxiety measures and self-efficacy, and correlation with climbing performance were used.

Main Results:

  • The Climbing Anxiety Scale (CAS-20) was developed and underwent preliminary validation.
  • Preliminary evidence supported the scale's reliability, factorial structure, convergent validity, and criterion-related validity concerning climbing performance.

Conclusions:

  • The Climbing Anxiety Scale (CAS-20) is a novel, validated instrument for assessing anxiety in rock climbing.
  • This scale can aid in evaluating anxiety levels and monitoring interventions for climbers in high-risk sports.