ویژگی‌های روان‌سنجی پرسش‌نامه ترس از ارتفاع کوهن در ورزشکاران

نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی

نویسندگان

1 استادیار،گروه رفتار حرکتی،دانشکده علوم ورزشی و تندرسی،دانشگاه شهید بهشتی،تهران،ایران.

2 دانشیار،گروه رفتارحرکتی،دانشکده تندرستی و علوم ورزشی،دانشگاه شهید بهشتی،تهران،ایران

3 مربی،گروه رفتارحرکتی،دانشکده علوم ورزشی و تندرسی،دانشگاه شهید بهشتی،تهران،ایران.

چکیده

ترس از ارتفاع یکی از رایج‌ترین ترس‌ها است که فرد در مواجهه با آن قدرت تفکر و حتی ایستادن را از دست می‌دهد. هدف از پژوهش حاضر، بررسی ویژگی‌های روان‌سنجی پرسش‌نامه ارزیابی ترس از ارتفاع کوهن در ورزشکاران ایران بود. در این پژوهش 225 ورزشکار (75 دختر و 150 پسر) با دامنه‌ی سنی 18 تا 50 سال (70/25±86/6 سال) و سابقه ورزشی 3±5/8 سال شرکت کردند. پرسش‌نامه ارزیابی ترس از ارتفاع شامل دو آیتم اضطراب و اجتناب است که هر کدام شامل 20 سوال است. قبل از تحلیل عاملی، ابتدا از آزمون‌های کایزر- مایر- الکین و کرویت بارتلت برای بررسی مناسب بودن داده‌ها برای تحلیل عاملی استفاده شد. سپس،‌ از تحلیل عاملی تاییدی برای آزمون روایی سازه پرسش‌نامه با استفاده ‌از شاخص‌های مطلق، تطبیقی و مقتصد استفاده شد. برای محاسبه پایایی درونی سوالات هر خرده مقیاس نیز از ضریب همسانی درونی آلفای کرونباخ استفاده شد. نتایج تحلیل عاملی تأییدی نشان داد که شاخص‌های تطبیقی، مقتصد و مطلق در دامنه قابل قبول قرار دارند. همچنین، نتایج آزمون آلفای کرونباخ نشان داد که ضریب پایایی مولفه اضطراب 96/0 و مولفه اجتناب 97/0 بود که نشان‌دهنده همسانی درونی سؤالات است. یافته‌های به دست آمده از این پژوهش، بیانگر این است که از پرسش‌نامه ترس از ارتفاع می‌توان به عنوان ابزاری معتبر برای سنجش ترس از ارتفاع ورزشکاران استفاده کرد.

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موضوعات


عنوان مقاله [English]

Psychometric Properties of Cohen Acrophobia Questionnaire among Athletes

نویسندگان [English]

  • Nassour Ahmadi 1
  • Behrouz Abdoli 2
  • fatemeh hafezi 3
  • Fatemeh Poor Rajabi 3
1 Motor Behavior Department, Sport Sciences and Health, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2 Associate Professor, Motor Behavior Department, Sport Sciences and Health, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
3 Motor Behavior Department, Sport Sciences and Health, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
چکیده [English]

Acrophobia is one of the most common fears that one loses thinking and even standing in face of it. The purpose of this study was to investigate psychometric properties of Cohen Acrophobia Questionnaire (ACQ) among Iranian athletes. 225 athletes (75 girls and 150 boys) age ranged 18-50 years old (25.70±6.86 years) and sport experiences of 8.5 ± 3 year participated in this study. The acrophobia questionnaire includes two items of anxiety and avoidance, each containing 20 questions. Prior to the factor analyses, Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin and Bartlett's test of sphericity was used to assess the suitability of the respondent data for factor analysis. Then, a confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the construct validity of the questionnaire using Absolute, Comparative and Parsimony fit indices. It was used the internal consistency coefficient of Cronbach's alpha to calculate the reliability of questions in each subscale. The findings of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the comparative, absolute, and parsimony indices are in acceptable range. Also, the results of Cronbach's alpha test showed that reliability coefficient of anxiety and avoidance subscales were .96 and .97 respectively. the findings of this study indicate that, Cohen acrophobia questionnaire could be used as a reliable tool to measure acrophobia among Iranian athletes.

کلیدواژه‌ها [English]

  • Fear
  • Anxiety
  • Avoidance
  • Validity
  • Reliability
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