A scale to measure attitudes toward organized college intramural sports program
The purpose of the study was to devise a scale to measure attitudes of individuals toward college intramural sports programs. A preliminary list of one hundred and six attitudinal statements was given to a twenty member panel of judges to determine which statements were positive, negative, or unclear. After an analysis of the judges' conclusions, a list of seventy-four statements was given to a pilot study group (N = 57). For each statement, the subjects were asked to mark one of the following responses: strongly agree, agree, undecided, disagree, strongly disagree. From the responses of the subjects, the following were determined: (1) a discriminatory factor for each statement, (2) the thirty positive and thirty negative statements with the greatest discriminatory factor, and (3) the item reliability of each statement. The thirty positive and thirty negative statements which had the greatest discriminatory factors were ranked from one to thirty. The even numbered positive and negative statements were used for Form A and the odd number statements were used for Form B of the attitude scale. A Spearman's correlation coefficient of .84 was determined when scores (N = 154) from Form A were compared to the scores to Form B. The conclusions of the study were (1) Form A and Form B of the scale did measure attitudes of individuals toward intramural sports, (2) the scale was valid and indicated a degree of reliability, and (3) the correlation between Form A and Form B indicated a high degree of relationship between the two forms
Thesis, Dissertation, English, 1984
University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
dissertations
x, 108 leaves : map ; 28 cm
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