Validation of the Goal Content for Exercise Questionnaire (GCEQ) for a sample of elderly portuguese people

Antunes, Raul; Couto, Nuno; Monteiro, Diogo; MOUTÃO, JOÃO; Marinho, Daniel; Cid, Luis

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According Sebire, Standage and Vansteenkiste (2008), goals contents (motives) are the major drivers of behavior, giving rise to the goal content theory, which is in the basis of Goal Content for Exercise Questionnaire (GCEQ: Sebire et al., 2008) development. So, the main goal of present study was to conduct the validation of GCEQ for a sample of Portuguese elderly (n = 311), with equal or higher ages than 60 years old (M = 68.53; DP = 6.69). The main results show us that CGEQ measurement model (5 factors, 20 items) only present adequate fit to data after the elimination of 3 items: S-Bχ²=219.9, df=109, p=.001, SRMR=.049, TLI=.916, CFI=.934, RMSEA=.057, RMSEA 90% CI=.046-.068, PCFI=.747). Besides that, the 5 factors show us acceptable values of composite reliability: between .76 and .88. Those findings allow us to conclude that GCEQ with 5 factors and 17 items can be used to measure goal content in a population of elderly Portuguese people in physical activity domain.

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goal content exercise elderly people confirmatory factorial analysis

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Antunes, Raul; Couto, Nuno; Monteiro, Diogo; Moutão, João; Marinho, Daniel; Cid, Luis. Validation of the Goal Content for Exercise Questionnaire (GCEQ) for a sample of elderly portuguese people. Motricidade, 13, 1, 59-67, 2017.