Construction and Validation of an Instrument to Measure Sport Responsibility

There is no doubt that in addition to personal capabilities and team skills for athletes, sport responsibility affects their success and championship. The championships and national and international positions and glories influence not only personal and group responsibilities of the athletes but also professional responsibility of sport organizations in relation to the society. Citizens expect to see their athletes not only on top but on top of the ethical standards and remember them as legends. The aim of the current study was to construct and validate the sport responsibility measurement instrument. The present study used exploratory factor analysis to obtain desirable statistical results. Firstly, qualitative data and then quantitative data were collected and analyzed. The considered instrument was distributed among 360 players of volleyball premier league teams in order to statistically examine the internal stability and construct validity of the instrument which was performed with exploratory factor analysis of main data using major components method by orthogonal rotation. After quantitative and qualitative steps, the final questionnaire with 30 items for all factors and sub-factors was constructed. This study extracted a suitable instrument to evaluate responsibility in athletes.