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  • The Passion Scale - Portuguese Version: Reliability, Validity, and Invariance of Gender and Sport
    Publication . Cid, Luis; Vitorino, Anabela; Bento, Teresa; Teixeira, Diogo; Rodrigues, Filipe; Monteiro, Diogo
    The aim of this study was to analyze the psychometric properties of the original version of the Passion Scale (14 items, two factors). We tested it within a sample of mixed gender Portuguese athletes from different sports, including adapted sports. In addition to demonstrating reliability, validity, and confirmatory factor analyses of the Passion Scale, we sought to analyze the invariance of this measure between males and females and across six types of sports (soccer, futsal, swimming, surf, bodyboard, and adapted sports). We recruited 1,316 athlete respondents to test this scale from both genders (1,109 males; 207 females), aged between 14 and 59 years (M ¼ 21.83; SD ¼ 8.67). Our main results revealed weaknesses in the factor model for the original instrument (14 items and two factors) leading us to reject the model. However, after adapting the model (eight items and two factors), the psychometric properties of the Passion Scale improved substantially and then exhibited (a) good fit to the data and (b) invariance between gender and across sports. Our new proposed version of the Passion Scale can be used with confidence to analyze the passion athletes feel when practicing their sport.
    2019-05-14Journal article Open access Show more
  • You can always go further: STRENGTHENING LEADERSHIP SKILLS - Day 1: Coaching and communication skills build a strong team
    Publication . Pinto, Paula
    This training activity is one of the four training activities of the project "Tranpeer: A transnational skills programme to enhance the employability of researchers". As their career progresses, researchers are expected to become efficient managers - managing time, data, people and budgets; or efficient communicators - presenting complex data in an accessible and appealing manner in a number of formats, able to filter and adapt communication to a number of different target stakeholders including peers, funding agencies, media and policy makers and other. This workshop covered planning and developing complementary skills linked to leadership, communication and management.
    2019-05-14Lecture Open access Show more