Mountaineering and skydiving: different motives from an agentic emotion regulation perspective
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The sensation seeking scale (SSS-V, Zuckerman et al., 1978) has been shown to be a valid and reliable
instrument for identifying individuals with the propensity or desire to engage in so-called sensation seeking
activities.The SSS-V does not measure motives for engagement in high-risk sport and cannot be used for such
a purpose. Recent research has focused on emotion regulation and agency as motives for participation in
high-risk sport and has highlighted the need for a domain-specific measure of them as motives for
participation in high-risk sport (see, for example,Woodman et al., 2010). The present paper reports two
studies that chart the development of a measure of Sensation Seeking, Emotion Regulation, and Agency (the
SEA scale) as motives for participation in high-risk sport. The measure consists of three separate
questionnaires rating participants' percepts and experiences across three time points: between participations,
during participation, and after participation.The between participations questionnaire measures three factors:
need for sensations; difficulty regulating emotions; and diminished agency.The while participating questionnaire
measures three factors: experience of desired sensations; experience of intense emotions; and agentic
experience. The after participating questionnaire originally also measured three factors, but confirmatory
factor analysis suggested that these could be just two factors: satisfaction of need for sensations; and transfer
of agentic collapsed to emotion regulation. The final SEA scale consists of three, 18-item questionnaires that
demonstrate good model fit, adequate internal consistency, and good alpha reliability levels.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 12 Jul 2011 |
Event | The 13th European Congress of Sport Psychology, Madeira - Duration: 3 Jan 0001 → … |
Conference
Conference | The 13th European Congress of Sport Psychology, Madeira |
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Period | 3/01/01 → … |