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Adaptation of Instruments The Psychological Skills Inventory for Sport - Youth to Measure Psychological Characteristics of Indonesian Athlete: Validity and Reliability 1Department of Physical Education Health and Recreation, Universitas Negeri Makassar, Makassar, 90222, Sulawesi Selatan, Indonesia Abstract Background: Sport is a programmed and measurable activity both physically, technically, tactically, psychologically athletes. Especially for achievement sports, the dose of training must be appropriate including the psychological needs of athletes. Based on this, the psychological abilities of athletes must be measured with valid and reliable instruments. Indonesian national athletes are elite athletes who need authentic data about their psychological skills that are tailored to their sports. The psychological skills Inventory for sports instrument developed by Mahoney successfully revealed the psychological skills of elite and non-elite athletes in the United States who performed at the Olympics. Based on this, the researcher adopted the instrument to be used on Indonesian national athletes, because in sports achievement, especially during competition, psychological skills are very dominant in influencing athlete performance. Keywords: Background: Sport is a programmed and measurable activity both physically, technically, tactically, psychologically athletes. Especially for achievement sports, the dose of training must be appropriate including the psychological needs of athletes. Based on this, the psychological abilities of athletes must be measured with valid and reliable instruments. Indonesian national athletes are elite athletes who need authentic data about their psychological skills that are tailored to their sports. The psychological skills Inventory for sports instrument developed by Mahoney successfully revealed the psychological skills of elite and non-elite athletes in the United States who performed at the Olympics. Based on this, the researcher adopted the instrument to be used on Indonesian national athletes, because in sports achievement, especially during competition, psychological skills are very dominant in influencing athlete performance. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to adopt and validate The Psychological Skills Inventory for Sport instrument developed by Mahoney to be used to measure the psychological characteristics of Indonesian national athletes, both elite and non-elite athletes. Methods: This study uses descriptive quantitative research. The population in this study were 324 PON athletes. The sampling technique used purposive sampling and found a sample of 76 athletes determined by the Slovin formula. The data collection technique uses The Psychological Skills Inventory for Sport instrument which is adopted and will be validated consisting of 44 statement items. The instrument validation stage includes content validation and empirical validation. Content validation uses four experts who are experts in their fields, namely English experts, Indonesian language experts, and sports psychology experts. Empirical validation uses field trials directly to national athletes competing in the PON national sports week. The instrument to be validated consists of six psychological aspects, namely motivation, self-confidence, mental preparation, anxiety control, team cohesiveness, and concentration. Data analysis techniques using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Results: The results of the study found 38 valid and reliable items. The validity obtained is 0.227 - 0.714, which fulfills the validity coefficient value of 0.21 to> 0.35. The reliability obtained is the Cronbach^s alpha value of 0.890 which illustrates the reliability value of the instrument is suitable for use. Conclusion: Based on the validation and reliability results obtained, it can be concluded that The Psychological Skills Inventory for Sport is an instrument that is feasible to use to measure the psychological characteristics of Indonesian national athletes. Keywords: Validitas, reliabilitas, Instrumet The Psychological Skills Inventory for Sport-Youth Topic: Sport sciences |
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