title: Italian version of the task and ego orientation in sport questionnaire.
abstract: The 1992 Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire developed by Duda and Nicholls was translated into Italian and administered to 802 young athletes, 248 girls and 554 boys aged 8 to 14 years, drawn from a range of individual and team sports, to examine its factor structure. Data sets of a calibration sample (boys 12-14 years) and of four cross-validation samples (boys 8-11 years, girls 8-11 years, boys 12-14 years, and girls 12-14 years) were subjected to confirmatory factor analysis specifying, as in the original questionnaire, an Ego Orientation scale (6 items) and a Task Orientation scale (7 items). Results across sex and age yielded chi2/df ratios ranging from 1.95 to 3.57, GFI indices above .90, AGFI indices ranging from .90 to .92, and RMSEA values not above .10. Findings provided acceptable support for the two-dimension structure of the test. In the whole sample, the Ego factor accounted for the 27.2% of variance and the Task factor accounted for the 33.5% of variance. Acceptable internal consistency of the two scales was also shown, with Cronbach alpha values ranging from .73 to .85.
authors.affiliation: Facoltà di Medicina e Chirurgia, Scienze Motorie Università di Padova, Italy. laura.bortoli@tin.it
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bortoli
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Robazza
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004532:Ego; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D013177:Sports; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014175:Translating