Factorial Validity and Gender Invariance of the Physical Activity Enjoyment Scale (PACES) in Older Adolescents

Documented gender differences in physical activity rates during adolescence (Grunbaum et al., 2004) pose the question of whether physical activity enjoyment similarly differs between boys and girls. However, a necessary precursor to research on this topic is that the factor structure of the PACES be...

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Published in:Research quarterly for exercise and sport 2009-03, Vol.80 (1), p.117-121
Main Authors: Dunton, Genevieve Fridlund, Tscherne, James, Rodriguez, Daniel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescent Attitudes
Adolescents
Age Factors
Aging
Asian Americans
Attitude Measures
Children & youth
Confidence Intervals
confirmatory factor analysis
Confounding Factors (Epidemiology)
Correlation
Data Analysis
Exercise - psychology
Factor Analysis
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Factor Structure
Female
Gender Differences
Grade 10
Grade 11
Happiness
Health behavior
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
High School Students
Humans
Late Adolescents
Learning disabilities
Male
Maximum Likelihood Statistics
Middle schools
Minority & ethnic groups
Models, Statistical
Motor Activity
Physical Activities
Psychometrics
School districts
Secondary school students
Secondary schools
Sex Factors
Smoking
structural equation modeling
Structural Equation Models
Suburban Schools
United States (Northeast)
Validity
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Summary:Documented gender differences in physical activity rates during adolescence (Grunbaum et al., 2004) pose the question of whether physical activity enjoyment similarly differs between boys and girls. However, a necessary precursor to research on this topic is that the factor structure of the PACES be equivalent across gender. Although gender invariance of the PACES has been shown for children (ages 8-12 years; Paxton et al., 2008), there were no boys in the study on younger adolescents by Motl and colleagues (2001). Therefore, an understanding of whether the PACES scale is comparable between adolescent boys and girls is necessary. To address these questions, the authors examined the factorial validity and gender invariance of the PACES instrument in a sample of older adolescent boys and girls (ages 15-18 years). The first goal of the research was to determine whether the direction of the item wording presents a methodological artifact for this age group, as it does for younger populations. Second, the authors sought to determine whether factor structure, item loadings, and correlations between item errors were similar between boys and girls. (Contains 3 tables.)
ISSN:0270-1367
2168-3824
DOI:10.1080/02701367.2009.10599535