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INSTRUMENTATION AND MOTIVATIONS FOR ORGANISED CYCLING: THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE CYCLIST MOTIVATION INSTRUMENT (CMI) |
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Trent D. Brown1  ,
Justen P. O'Connor1 and Anastasios N. Barkatsas2 |
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1Monash University, Peninsula Campus, 2Gippsland Campus, Australia |
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© Journal of Sports Science and Medicine (2009) 8, 211 - 218 Search Google Scholar for Citing Articles |
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| 'Serious leisure' cycling has developed as a reinterpretation
of the traditional form of the sport. This short term, informal, unstructured
and unconventional conceptualisation represents a challenge to participant
numbers in the mainstream sport. The purpose of this study was twofold:
(i) to ascertain the cultural, subcultural and ecological factors of participation
in this new conceptualised form enabling clubs, associations and governments
to a deeper understanding about participants practices and (ii) as an ongoing
validation to previous qualitative work (see O'Connor and Brown, 2005). This study reports on the development and psychometric
properties (principal components analysis, confirmatory factor analysis)
of the Cyclists' Motivation Instrument. Four hundred and twenty two cyclists
(371 males, 51 females) who were registered members of the state competitive
cycling body completed a fifty-one item instrument. Five factors were identified:
social, embodiment, self-presentation, exploring environments and physical
health outcomes and these accounted for 47.2% of the variance. Factor alpha
coefficients ranged from .63 to .88, overall scale reliability was .92,
suggesting moderate to high reliability for each of the factors and the
overall scale.
Key words: Bicycling, cyclists, motivation, scale validation, instrument, social ecology. |
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