The psycho-lexical structure of sports culture

Yuanbing Guo; Na Ye; Xiaobin Hong; Wenjing Wang

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894694

The psycho-lexical structure of sports culture

Front Psychol. 2022 Oct 5:13:894694. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.894694. eCollection 2022.

Authors

Yuanbing Guo^{1

2

3}, Na Ye³, Xiaobin Hong^{2

3}, Wenjing Wang³

Affiliations

¹ College of Sports Science and Technology, Wuhan Sports University, Wuhan, China.
² Hubei Provincial Key Laboratory of Sports Training Monitoring, Wuhan Sports University, Wuhan, China.
³ Department of Applied Psychology, Wuhan Sports University, Wuhan, China.

Abstract

The psycho-lexical approach can be effectively used to explore the structure of sports culture. Based on a lexical list of adjective vocabulary reflecting sports culture and through an item analysis, 87 discriminating objectives were selected representing sports culture.

Objective: To explore the structure of sports culture from the objectives lexicons.

Methods: Item analysis and factor analysis were adopted to abstract the structure of sports culture.

Results: Through a principal component analysis, a structure of six factors including extroversion-activity, diligence-progression, experience, independence-excellence, enjoyment, and body culture was extracted. Through a second-order factor analysis, a psychological structure of sports culture consisting of six dimensions and 12 factors was extracted, and result of the reliability analysis revealed good Cronbach α coefficient and test-retest reliability coefficient.

Conclusion: The psycho-lexical structure of sports culture can be used to understand structure of sports culture.

Keywords: factor analysis; psycho-lexical hypothesis; psychological adjectives; psychological structure; sports culture.