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ABSTRACT: Background
The present study aimed at assessing the psychometric properties of psychosocial determinants of physical activity-related measures in Iranian adolescent girls.Methods
Several measures of psychosocial determinants of physical activity were translated from English into Persian using the back-translation technique. These translated measures were administered to 512 ninth and tenth-grade Iranian high school students.Results
The results of a series of factor analysis showed that the self-efficacy scale contained a single factor, the social support scale contained two factors: family support and friend support, the physical activity 'pros & cons' scale contained two factors: physical activity pros scale and physical activity cons scale, the change strategies scale contained a single factor, the environment scale also contained a single factor. Chronbach's alphas, mean inter-item correlations and test-retest coefficients showed that these solutions were reliable.Conclusions
These preliminary results provide support for using the mentioned scales to measure psychosocial determinants of physical activity in Iranian adolescent girls.
SUBMITTER: Pirasteh A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2397400 | biostudies-literature | 2008 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pirasteh Ashraf A Hidarnia Alireza A Asghari Ali A Faghihzadeh Soghrate S Ghofranipour Fazlollah F
BMC public health 20080507
<h4>Background</h4>The present study aimed at assessing the psychometric properties of psychosocial determinants of physical activity-related measures in Iranian adolescent girls.<h4>Methods</h4>Several measures of psychosocial determinants of physical activity were translated from English into Persian using the back-translation technique. These translated measures were administered to 512 ninth and tenth-grade Iranian high school students.<h4>Results</h4>The results of a series of factor analys ...[more]