Cross-cultural validity of the Physical Self-Description Questionnaire: Comparison of factor structures in Australia, Spain, and Turkey

Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport

Volumn 73, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 257-270

  Marsh, Herbert W ^a   Marco, Inés Tomás ^b   Apçý, F Hülya ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c Bapkent University   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Confirmatory factor analysis; Cross cultural generalizability; Factorial invariance; Physical self concept

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF CONCEPT; SPAIN; SPORT; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SELF CONCEPT; SPAIN; SPORTS; TURKEY;

EID: 0036719578     PISSN: 02701367     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02701367.2002.10609019     Document Type: Article

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