The document discusses the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS) and its components. The AIMS measures levels of athletic identity and is composed of 7 items on a 7-point Likert scale. It has three subscales: social identity, exclusivity, and negative affectivity. The internal components subscale of AIMS includes dimensions of self-identity, positive affectivity, and negative affectivity. The external component includes social identity and exclusivity dimensions. The document also discusses validating the AIMS for use with Portuguese athletes and argues that validation should consider theoretical, statistical, and practical factors.
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AIMS (Athletic Identity Measurement Scale)
The document discusses the Athletic Identity Measurement Scale (AIMS) and its components. The AIMS measures levels of athletic identity and is composed of 7 items on a 7-point Likert scale. It has three subscales: social identity, exclusivity, and negative affectivity. The internal components subscale of AIMS includes dimensions of self-identity, positive affectivity, and negative affectivity. The external component includes social identity and exclusivity dimensions. The document also discusses validating the AIMS for use with Portuguese athletes and argues that validation should consider theoretical, statistical, and practical factors.
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The internal components sub-scale is composed
by 3 dimension: (a) self-identity – objectifying the items
that capture the self-referential cognitions that form a self- assessment and own athlete interpretation (SI – items 1, 2, 13 and 21); (b) positive affectivity - combining items that self-evaluate and interpret the positive experiences of involvement with sport (PA – items 10, 15, 16 and 22); and (c) negative affectivity - showing the evaluation and interpretation that the athlete makes of his performance as poor and how can this have a negative impact on is life (NA - items 7, 9, 12 and 18). The external component is composed by 2 dimensions: (a) social identity - composed by items that capture the ideas present in the athlete regarding their social identity (SI - items 3, 6, 11, 14 and 19); and (b) exclusivity - items that assess the importance of sport for the athlete and the amount of time spent in sport when compared with other areas of life (EX - items 4, 5, 8, 17 and 20). The athletic identity score is obtained by calculating the average score between the sum of the internal components item values and the sum of the external item values, but a partial analysis can also be achieved with the five dimensions. Despite the fact that in its original version the scale had good reliability coefficients (test-retest), good correlations among the various factors and good content validity, the fi rst confi rmation factorial analysis resulting model was poor (Cieslak, 2004). Subsequent studies have confi rmed and demonstrated the good factor structure of the model (Cieslak et al., 2005). Byrne (2010) argues that “assessment of model adequacy must be based on multiple criteria that take into account theoretical, statistical, and practical considerations”. (p. 84). If we take into consideration the strong theoretical model that supports the AIMS-plus, it’s good results in terms of content validity, the high rates of internal consistency and its potential to become an excellent application for the psychologist’s practice and for the researcher in the area of identity, we can aim, with the present study, to validate this instrument for the Portuguese athletes population. AIMS (Athletic Identity Measurement Scale). The AIMS was developed by Brewer and Cornelius (2001) and it is widely used in Athletic Identity research. Its purpose is to measure levels of athletic identity. It is composed by 7 items with a 7-point Likert scale response format, varying from 1 (strongly disagree) to 7 (strongly agree), producing a total sum AI score. The AIMS authors propose a multidimensional model for measuring athletic identity which is composed by three subscales: social identity (SC – items 1, 2 and 3), exclusivity (EX – items 4 and 5) and negative affectivity (NA – items 6 and 7; Brewer, Boin, & Petitpas, 1993). The psychometric properties of the AIMS have shown a factorial structure with acceptable fi t indexes and a high