Development and validation of psychosocial determinants measures of physical activity among Iranian adolescent girls.
BACKGROUND
The present study aimed at assessing the psychometric properties of psychosocial determinants of physical activity-related measures in Iranian adolescent girls.


METHODS
Several measures of psychosocial determinants of physical activity were translated from English into Persian using the back-translation technique. These translated measures were administered to 512 ninth and tenth-grade Iranian high school students.


RESULTS
The results of a series of factor analysis showed that the self-efficacy scale contained a single factor, the social support scale contained two factors: family support and friend support, the physical activity 'pros & cons' scale contained two factors: physical activity pros scale and physical activity cons scale, the change strategies scale contained a single factor, the environment scale also contained a single factor. Chronbach's alphas, mean inter-item correlations and test-retest coefficients showed that these solutions were reliable.


CONCLUSIONS
These preliminary results provide support for using the mentioned scales to measure psychosocial determinants of physical activity in Iranian adolescent girls.
Pirasteh
Ashraf
A
Department of Health Education, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran. pirasteh2002@yahoo.com
Hidarnia
Alireza
A
Asghari
Ali
A
Faghihzadeh
Soghrate
S
Ghofranipour
Fazlollah
F
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D015444:Exercise / Q000523:psychology*; D005163:Factor Analysis, Statistical; D005190:Family / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D033062:Friends / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007492:Iran; D011594:Psychometrics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020377:Self Efficacy; D012944:Social Support; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires