Validation of sport motivation scale (SMS) in soccer for the Brazilian Portuguese language

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to submit the Sport Motivation Scale (SMS) questionnaire for the transculture validation of the Sport Motivation Scale for the Brazilian Portuguese language and analysis the validity and applicability in the High level Brazilian younger football players. 370 athletes participated of this study. Was used the Sport Motivation Scale for the Brazilian Portuguese language questionnaire consisting for the 28 questions, in 7 dimensions. For the translation and adaptation of the instrument was used the conduct suggest in literature. The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that with the exception of S-Bx² that test was significant (p < 0.001), all other measures of absolute fit (GFI and RMSEA) and incremental fit (NFI, NNFI and AGFI), presented within the acceptable values in the literature. Regarding the completion of internal reliability, we can observe that only two dimensions have reached the minimum value (> 0.70), however, the other dimensions, closer to the desirable rate. However, the results showed in this study lend some support to the validity of the EME-BR with young Brazilian players to senior football.