Abstract:
Immersed in the world of sports, athletes invest and use their athletic identity with peers and others around them. To measure this identity, the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS; Brewer et al., 1993) has been used worldwide and adapted into different languages. We translated AIMS into Urdu to gauge the athletic identity of Pakistani athletes. The scale comprises 10 items and is divided into social, cognitive, and affective sports-related identities. Each item was assessed on a 7-point Likert-type scale. The present study validated an Urdu-translated version of AIMS on 127 male- and 93 female- (N = 220) Pakistani athletes with an average age (M = 24.35, SD = 5.60) typically observed for young athletes engaged in a variety of sports. A confirmatory factor analysis revealed a three-factor structure identical to the factor structure of AIMS in the English and other language versions. A moderately high internal consistency was found for AIMS (a = .82) and slightly lower levels for its subscales, i.e., social athletic identity (a = .78), cognitive athletic identity (a = .74), and affective athletic identity (a = .79). Results suggest, AIMS has acceptable psychometric properties and can be used for Pakistani athletes that use Urdu.
Page(s):
3-10
DOI:
DOI not available
Published:
Journal: Pakistan Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology, Volume: 21, Issue: 1, Year: 2023
Keywords:
athletes
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affective athletic identity
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Athletic identity
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Pakistani athletes
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cognitive athletic identity
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social athletic identity