Development of the Chinese Version of the Sport Imagery Questionnaire

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to develop the Chinese version of Sport Imagery Questionnaire (SIQ) and to examine its reliability and validity. This study included two procedures. The procedure one was used to conduct confirmatory factor analysis. This study adopted the way of comparing the model fitness of the competitive models to choose the best model, and this study further tested the reliability and validity of the model. The procedure two was to examine the measurement invariance of this questionnaire. In this study, procedure one and two included 237 and 395 valid questionnaires respectively, total 632 valid questionnaires. The results showed a five-factor oblique model of SIQ Scale, named cognitive specific, cognitive general, motivational specific, motivational general-arousal and motivational general-mastery imagery. This theoretical model was found to be good overall fit, construct reliability, convergent validity, discriminate validity, and passed the examination of measurement invariance. It was concluded that the development of the Chinese version of SIQ provided good reliability and validity. The SIQ could be used to assess competitive athletes' sport imagery for future researchers.