Achievement Goals across Persistence—Validation of the Spanish Version of the Motivational Persistence Scale

Iñaki Quintana, Maria Isabel Barriopedro and Luis Miguel Ruiz Perez
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Iñaki Quintana: Faculty of Health Sciences, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria (UFV), 28223 Madrid, Spain
Maria Isabel Barriopedro: Department of Social Sciences of Physical Activity and Sport, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), 28040 Madrid, Spain
Luis Miguel Ruiz Perez: Department of Social Sciences of Physical Activity and Sport, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), 28040 Madrid, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 14, 1-14

Abstract: Background: An important aspect of achievement goals is the persistence and determination that the person possesses in order to achieve it. Spain does not have an adequate instrument for its measurement. First, this article had the aim of adapt and validate the Motivational Persistence Scale of Constantin et al. in a Spanish population and athletes. Second, it had the aim of prove the relationship with deliberate practice and performance. Methods: In this study, 384 university students participated, where the factor structure was analyzed by means of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA). In study 2 of 169 athletes was used to confirm its validity in a homogeneous population and its predictive capacity on the hours of deliberate practice (DP) and performance. Results: The AFC showed a two-factor structure, reducing the original three-factor structure, presenting a good fit in both Spanish and homogeneous population of athletes and achieving a significant predictive capacity on deliberate practice. The new dimensions were Purpose Pursuing (PP) and Recurrence of Unattained Purposes (RUP). Conclusions: Overall, our results provide evidence that this scale could be a useful tool for the assessment of Persistence in the Spanish adult and athlete population.

Keywords: persistence; validation; reliability; deliberate practice; performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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