Confirmation of the Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale (BPNES) With a Sample of People who do Healthy Exercise

Juan A Moreno-Murcia; Celestina Martínez-Galindo; Víctor Moreno-Pérez; Pablo J Marcos; Fernanda Borges

Confirmation of the Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale (BPNES) With a Sample of People who do Healthy Exercise

J Sports Sci Med. 2012 Mar 1;11(1):141-6. eCollection 2012.

Authors

Juan A Moreno-Murcia¹, Celestina Martínez-Galindo, Víctor Moreno-Pérez, Pablo J Marcos, Fernanda Borges

Affiliation

¹ University of Miguel Hernández of Elche (UMH).

PMID: 24149130
PMCID: PMC3737849

Abstract

This study aimed to cross-validate the psychometric properties of the Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale (BPNES) by Vlachopoulos and Michailidou, 2006 in a Spanish context. Two studies were conducted. Confirmatory factor analysis results confirmed the hypothesized three-factor solution In addition, we documented evidence of reliability, analysed as internal consistency and temporal stability. Future studies should analyse the scale's validity and reliability with different populations and check their experimental effect. Key pointsThe Basic Psychological Needs in Exercise Scale (BPNES) is valid and reliable for measuring basic psychological needs in healthy physical exercise in the Spanish context.The factor structure of three correlated factors has shown minimal invariance across gender.

Keywords: Self-determination; autonomy; competence; factorial validity; fitness; health; psychological mediators; relatedness.