Reliability and Validity of the Commitment to Physical Activity Scale for Adolescents

• Published in: American journal of health promotion Vol. 31; no. 4; pp. 343 - 352
• Main Authors: Robbins, Lorraine B., Ling, Jiying, Wesolek, Stacey M., Kazanis, Anamaria S., Bourne, Kelly A., Resnicow, Ken
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2017; American Journal of Health Promotion
• Subjects: Adolescent; Age Factors; Child; Commitment; Community centers; Confirmatory factor analysis; Exercise; Exercise - psychology; Exploratory factor analysis; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Girls; Health promotion; Health Promotion - methods; Humans; Male; Middle schools; Perception; Physical activity; Prospective Studies; Psychometrics; Quantitative psychology; Reproducibility of Results; Review boards; Self Efficacy; Skill development; Socioeconomic Factors; Teenagers; Test-Retest reliability; Urban areas; Research purpose: instrument development; Target population age: youth; Female, Exercise, Adolescent, Motivation, Factor analysis, Measures, Prevention Research. Manuscript format: research; Setting: local community and schools; Health focus: fitness/physical activity; Target population circumstances: education/income level, geographic location, race-ethnicity; Outcome measure: cognitive and behavioral; Strategy: skill development/behavior change; Study design: nonexperimental

Purpose. To examine psychometric properties of a Commitment to Physical Activity Scale for Adolescents (CPASA). Design. Two test-retest studies and a prospective study, approved by a university institutional review board, were conducted in midwestern U.S. urban areas. Setting. The first test-retest...