AUTHOR=Zheng Nan , Yang Ye 

TITLE=Development and Validation of Parental Support Scale of Children’s Sports Training in China: Socio-Ecological Approach

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=13

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.922282

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.922282

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Objectives</title><p>To promote Chinese children participation in sports training and acquisition of sports skills, we combined a social ecological research framework with parental support to develop the Parental Support for Children’s Sports Training Scale (PSCSTS).</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>The scale was initially developed based on literature review, group interviews, and expert evaluations. A complete reliability and validity test was conducted on 1,594 parents of primary and secondary schools in Shanghai.</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>The PSCSTS has 37 questions, and exploratory factor analysis has formed 10 factors: policy support, parents’ financial support, community support, media support, sports development, school activity participation, parents’ exercise habits, training quality support, development of school sports activities, learning skills. The higher-order models constructed by validated factor analysis fit well (<italic>χ</italic><sup>2</sup>/<italic>df</italic> = 2.130, RMSEA = 0.038, SRMR = 0.042, GFI = 0.911, CFI = 0.928). The Parents of children of different sexes have measurement invariance in the PSCSTS.</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>The PSCSTS developed in this study based on a social-ecological framework has high reliability and validity, and can be used as a comprehensive measure of parental support for their children’s sports training.</p></sec>