Reliability and Validity of Recreational Fishing Motivation Scale inTurkish Population

Authors : Faik ARDAHAN

Pages : 59-65

Doi:10.15314/tjse.44570

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Publication Date : 2014-11-13

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :The purpose of this study was to identify reliability and validity of The Recreational Fishing Motivation Scale in Turkish population. The sample of current study was consisted of 359 volunteer participants insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(M age =35.90 ± 9.80); who live in all around of Turkey. In the statistical analysis, scale exploratory factor analysis was conducted to identify the sub-factors of the 21 items which were grouped under six sub-factors. These factors are; socialization, rest and being in nature, competition and glory, escape, eat, and give. Whether the data was suitable to this analysis, Kaiser Mayer Olkin insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(0.807); and Bartlett Spheritiy test insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(p<0.05); results were taken into consideration. Cronbach`s Alpha internal consistency test insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(0.843); was applied to the identified sub-factors and overall scale. The variance explained by these subscales was %64.590. Finally, results revealed that Recreational Fishing Motivation Scale was a reliable and valid scale in the estimation of the motivational factors for recreational fishing in Turkish population.
Keywords : Recreational fishing motivation scale, reliability, validity, Turkish population