Gli orientamenti motivazionali nello sport: un contributo italiano alla validazione del TEOSQ e del PMCSQ-2

The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of italian version of two relevant inventories of the Achievement Goal Theory in sport: the 13-item version of the Task and Ego Orientation in Sport Questionnaire (Duda & Nicholls, 1992) and the 29-item version of the Perceived Motivational Climate in Sport Questionnaire (Newton & Duda, 1993). Data was collected among 487 athletes (76% males), drawn from a range of different sports, aged 13 to 33 years (mean 16.90 and s.d.3.65), which mainly compete at the regional level and that were contacted during an usual medical-sport examination. Exploratory principal component analysis provided acceptable support for the two-dimension structure of the TEOSQ, as well as the internal consistency reliability. Acceptable results were also shown for the general scales of the PMCSQ-2, whereas some doubts remain for his specific scales. At present, this research go on with the involvement of other athletes of different competitive level, in training and competition context, to verify, by structural equations models, the links between these dimensions and their inventories.