Construção e validação de um instrumento de apoio escolar e parental na formação esportiva do adolescente

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to construct and validate a survey to ascertain the school and family’s contribution in adolescents sports formation (CEFFEA). The participants were 295 adolescents aged 12 to 17 years, who practice in team and individual sports. It was carried out the following steps to validate the instrument: theoretical validation, which was the instrument of the construction and the pilot questionnaire implementation; and analytical empirical validation, which consisted of the questionnaire application, verification of the reliability, verification of suitability, application of the exploratory factor analysis and modeling end of the questionnaire. The reliability analysis, suitability and factorial exploratory performed to identify evidence of construct validity of the questionnaire showed acceptable adjustments and results that met the literature recommendations. The final model of the questionnaire items covered 21 of the 39 analyzed earlier and were divided into two dimensions: School with nine items divided into so-called factors of (1) sports development (items 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6) and (2) school performance (items 7, 8, 11 and 12); and Family with 12 items divided into so-called factors of (1) financial aspects (items 1, 2 and 3), (2) motivational aspects (items 11, 12 and 13), (3) Sports Interaction (7, 8 and 9) and (4) Sports tracking (items 16, 19 and 21). The questionnaire was called the School and Family Contribution in Training Sports Teenagers (CEFFEA). It is concluded that the questionnaire showed satisfactory levels of reliability and internal consistency with evidence of construct validity for checking of the support that the school and the family are concentrating on sporting formation of adolescents it can be applied in a school environment.