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A preliminary validation of the Arabic version of the "Profile of Emotional Competence" questionnaire among Tunisian adolescent athletes and nonathletes: insights and implications for sports psychology.

ABSTRACT: Background:Emotional intelligence refers to how individuals deal with intrapersonal or interpersonal emotional information and how a subject identifies, expresses, understands, regulates, and uses his/her own emotions or those of others. The purpose of the present study was to validate the Arabic version of the "Profile of Emotional Competence" (PEC) questionnaire. Methods:A sample of 285 Tunisian participants (153 men and 132 women) was recruited, age range: 12-18 years (15.2±2.4 years). The participants were prospectively classified into the following two groups: athletes (n=101) and nonathletes (n=184). Results:Findings of the present study indicated that the Arabic version of the PEC questionnaire has good psychometric properties. The Cronbach's a suggested that all subscales had adequate internal consistency. Test-retest reliability was excellent. The correlations between interpersonal and intrapersonal subscales were low to moderate (from 0.37 to 0.59), except for the regulation interpersonal, utilization interpersonal, and utilization intrapersonal subscales, which showed negligible correlations with the other subscales. The two-factor solution (interpersonal and intrapersonal competence models) accounted for 62.1% of variance. All subscales loaded on the expected factor, except for the utilization intrapersonal and regulation interpersonal subscales, which did not yield a satisfactory loading. Age and athletes' status impacted on all the PEC dimensions, except for some subscales. Conclusion:Finally, psychologists and practitioners in the Arab world could use the PEC questionnaire as a valid and reliable instrument for planning ad hoc interventions.

SUBMITTER: Aouani H

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6422408 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A preliminary validation of the Arabic version of the "Profile of Emotional Competence" questionnaire among Tunisian adolescent athletes and nonathletes: insights and implications for sports psychology.

Aouani Hajer H Slimani Maamer M Bragazzi Nicola Luigi NL Hamrouni Sabeur S Elloumi Mohamed M

Psychology research and behavior management 20190313

<h4>Background</h4>Emotional intelligence refers to how individuals deal with intrapersonal or interpersonal emotional information and how a subject identifies, expresses, understands, regulates, and uses his/her own emotions or those of others. The purpose of the present study was to validate the Arabic version of the "Profile of Emotional Competence" (PEC) questionnaire.<h4>Methods</h4>A sample of 285 Tunisian participants (153 men and 132 women) was recruited, age range: 12-18 years (15.2±2.4 ...[more]

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Project description:BackgroundThe Extended Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire (NMQ-E) had never been adapted into Arabic. We culturally adapted the NMQ-E to Arabic in five stages and investigated its psychometric properties.MethodsAfter translating and cross-culturally adapting the NMQ-E into Arabic, through forward translation, translation synthesis, backward translation, expert committee review, and pilot testing, the psychometric properties were investigated. The construct validity was assessed by having the participants completing the Arabic version of the NMQ-E with four Arabic scales that measured musculoskeletal pain in all regions covered in the NMQ-E. Participants' baseline records were also used to evaluate internal consistency (Cronbach's α). Seven days later, participants completed the Arabic NMQ-E again to evaluate its test-retest reliability employing intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) and standard error of measurement (SEM) for the age questions, and Cohen's kappa coefficient (κ), the proportion of observed agreement (Po), the proportion of positive agreement (Ppos), and the proportion of negative agreement (Pneg) for the dichotomous items.ResultsA total of 127 participants, 70 males and 57 females with mean age 32.5 ± 12.2 years, were included. Significant differences were found between participants with and without musculoskeletal pain in the corresponding scales, signifying the content validity of the questionnaire. Cronbach's α for both the prevalence and consequences pain sections combined ranged from 0.30 to 1.00. The test-retest reliability of the age questions was excellent, with ICC values ranging between 0.995 and 1.00. The SEM was 0.77 for the neck region and 0 for the rest of the regions. The prevalence questions demonstrated almost perfect agreement, with κ values ranging between 0.82 and 1.00, the Po between 0.94 and 1.00, the Ppos between 0.80 and 1.00, and the Pneg between 0.93 and 1.00. The consequences of pain questions showed moderate-to-perfect agreement, with κ values ranging between 0.57 and 1.00, between 0.83 and 1.00 for the Po, between 0.50 and 1.00 for the Ppos, and between 0.86 and 1.00 for the Pneg.ConclusionsThe results suggest that the Arabic NMQ-E is a valid and reliable tool that can be used to screen Arab adults for the prevalence and consequences of musculoskeletal pain.

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A preliminary validation of the Arabic version of the "Profile of Emotional Competence" questionnaire among Tunisian adolescent athletes and nonathletes: insights and implications for sports psychology.

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A preliminary validation of the Arabic version of the "Profile of Emotional Competence" questionnaire among Tunisian adolescent athletes and nonathletes: insights and implications for sports psychology.

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