A Cross-Cultural Psychometric Evaluation of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale |
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| Authors: | Amanda J. Visek Jennifer R. Hurst Jonathan P. Maxwell Jack C. Watson II |
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| Affiliation: | 1. The George Washington University ,;2. Truman State University ,;3. The University of Hong Kong ,;4. West Virginia University , |
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| Abstract: | The Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS) is a widely used measure of athletic identity (Brewer & Cornelius, 2001 Brewer, B. W. and Cornelius, A. E. 2001. Norms and factorial invariance of the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale. Academic Athletic Journal, 15: 103–113. [Google Scholar]). Although the factor structure of the AIMS has been tested repeatedly in an American population, its psychometric properties remain largely unexplored cross-culturally. Therefore, the purposes of the study were to further test the psychometric properties of the abbreviated 7-item AIMS in an American population, while also exploring its utility cross-culturally. Results revealed the AIMS to be a psychometrically sound measure of athletic identity for male contact and collision athletes in both American and English-speaking Hong Kong Chinese populations. |
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