Citation

Quartiroli A, Terry PC, Fogarty GJ. Front. Psychol. 2017; 8: e1483.

Affiliation

Australian Centre for Sustainable Business and Development, University of Southern QueenslandToowoomba, QLD, Australia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2017, Frontiers Research Foundation)

DOI

10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01483

PMID

28936185

PMCID

PMC5594224

Abstract

The current study presents initial validation statistics for the Italian Mood Scale (ITAMS), a culturally- and linguistically-validated Italian version of the Brunel Mood Scale (BRUMS: Terry and Lane, 2010). The ITAMS was administered to 950 sport participants (659 females), who ranged in age from 16 to 63 years (M = 25.03, SD = 7.62). In the first stage of the validation process, statistical procedures in Mplus were used to evaluate the measurement model. Multigroup exploratory structural equation modeling supported the hypothesized 6-factor measurement model for males and females separately and for the combined sample. Analysis of the scale scores using SPSS provided further support for the construct validity of the ITAMS with hypothesized relationships observed between ITAMS scores and measures of depression and affect. The development and validation of the ITAMS opens the way for mood-related research and sport or exercise interventions requiring mood assessments, in an Italian-language context.

Language: en

Keywords

BRUMS; affect; emotions; exercise; measurement; multigroup analysis; sport; structural equation modeling