Measuring dual career motivation among German student-athletes using the Student Athletes´ Motivation Toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire. Challenges and failures of linguistic and cultural adaptations.

Autor/inn/en	Niehues, Maike; Gerlach, Erin; Sallen, Jeffrey
Titel	Measuring dual career motivation among German student-athletes using the Student Athletes´ Motivation Toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire. Challenges and failures of linguistic and cultural adaptations. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Messung der Motivation deutscher Schüler-Athleten und -Athletinnen in der dualen Karriere mithilfe des Student Athletes´ Motivation Toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire. Herausforderungen und Scheitern sprachlicher und kultureller Anpassungen.
Quelle	In: German journal of exercise and sport research, 51 (2021) 3, S. 378-383 PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2509-3142; 2509-3150
DOI	10.1007/s12662-021-00723-9
Schlagwörter	Kultur; Empirische Untersuchung; Fragebogen; Schüler; Motivation; Sprache; Leistungssport; Sportpsychologie; Sportpädagogik; Karriere; Karriereplanung; Nachwuchsförderung; Sportler; Deutschland
Abstract	With the 2012 EU guidelines on dual careers (DC), DC research gained increasing awareness in Europe focussing particularly on student-athletes´ motivation. The Student Athletes´ Motivation toward Sports and Academics Questionnaire (SAMSAQ), arguably the most prominent instrument in this research area, has been used in various cross-cultural studies assessing DC motivation. The present investigation contributes to the cross-cultural discourse aiming to (1) adapt the SAMSAQ for the German context and adolescent secondary school student-athletes, and (2) evaluate the German pre-version. A sample of 208 student-athletes (52.4% females, mean age = 17.4 years, 49.5% at squad level) at three German Elite Sport Schools participated in the study. The investigation was split into two parts. First, the SAMSAQ was adapted to the German context and tested. In the second part, the first pre-version was revised. A series of exploratory factor analyses were applied to verify the factor structure of both German SAMSAQ pre-versions. Eight different factor models based on item removal were compared. Neither model demonstrated good results for the replication of previous findings or a meaningful solution in terms of content. Reasons for the deviations between the original and target SAMSAQ factor structures can be found in the different target groups and the culturally different approaches to career assistant programmes as well as in the theoretical background of the instrument. Since neither model was identified as acceptable, the findings indicate that a new instrument needs to be developed for assessing student-athletes´ DC motivation along their pathways in different cross-cultural contexts. (Autor).
Erfasst von	Bundesinstitut für Sportwissenschaft, Bonn
Update	2022/1