Initial validation of the coach-created Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire (EDMCQ-C)

By Paul R. Appleton, Nikos Ntoumanis, E. Quested, C. Viladrich, J. Duda. 2016

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Abstract This article employs Duda's (2013) hierarchical conceptualization of the coach-created motivational climate to inform the validation of a questionnaire (Empowering and Disempowering Motivational Climate Questionnaire-Coach; EDMCQ-C) that assesses junior athletes' perceptions of the social environmental dimensions proposed by achievement goal theory and self-determination theory. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) were initially employed to reduce the number of items required to measure the targeted climate dimensions. A series of competing models were then tested to determine the best representation of the questionnaire's factor structure. The findings revealed that exploratory structural equation modelling (ESEM) provided a better fit of the data to the hypothesised model than CFA solutions. Specifically, the bi-factor ESEM provided the best fit, although parameter estimates suggest that none of the ESEM solutions replicated the underlying theoretical model of the motivational climate proposed by Duda (2013). The evidence from this study suggests that the EDMCQ-C is a promising, parsimonious questionnaire to assess empowering and disempowering facets of the motivational climate albeit the development of the questionnaire remains a work in progress.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Safety Research, Social Psychology

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Examining the interactive effects of coach-created empowering and disempowering climate dimensions on athletes’ health and functioning (2016, methodology): “Initial evidence regarding the psychometrics of the 192 EDMCQ-C in samples of younger athletes were reported by Appleton et al. (2016), and the 193 psychometric properties of the original scales used in the development of the EDMCQ-C 194 have been established in children through to adult ath etes (e”
Building autonomous learners: perspectives from research and practice using self-determination theory (2019, background): “This is very relevant given the emerging motivational climate measures in the academic literature which attempt to combine SDT and AGT (e.g. see Empowering Coaching; Appleton et al., 2016).”
Development and initial validation of the Life Skills Scale for Sport (2017, methodology): “Furthermore, the advantages of using ESEM in the development of multidimensional scales has been highlighted by recent studies in sport and exercise psychology (e.g., Appleton et al., 2016; Myers, 2013).”