PMID- 36687907
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230202
IS  - 1664-1078 (Print)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Electronic)
IS  - 1664-1078 (Linking)
VI  - 13
DP  - 2022
TI  - Reproducibility of the brief religious coping inventory with African athletes' 
      sample using ordinal factor analytical approach.
PG  - 1038202
LID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1038202 [doi]
LID - 1038202
AB  - BACKGROUND: Previous studies have revealed that religious coping strategy is 
      common among athletes due to the stressful experiences before and during 
      competitions as part of the mental preparations they go through, the uncertainty 
      of sporting outcomes, and other organizational issues they encounter. This 
      research assessed the reproducibility of the Brief Religious Coping (RCOPE) 
      instrument in an African setting using athletes' samples from different 
      countries. Particularly, the research sought to assess the (1) factor structure 
      of Brief RCOPE with an African sample, (2) construct validity of the RCOPE 
      measure, and (3) measurement invariance of the RCOPE instrument based on gender 
      and nationality. METHODS: The study surveyed a convenient sample of 300 athletes, 
      including 164 male and 136 female athletes, from 3 African countries (Benin, 
      Ghana, and Nigeria) who participated in the 2018 West African University Games. 
      The Brief RCOPE instrument was administered to the athletes for validation 
      purposes before the competition. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses 
      were conducted using the ordinal factor analytic approach. RESULTS: This 
      validation study confirmed the two-factor dimension (positive and negative 
      religious coping) of the Brief RCOPE measure. Further, all items for each of the 
      dimensions of the inventory contributed significantly to the measure of the Brief 
      RCOPE domains. The positive and negative religious coping dimensions contributed 
      more than half of the variance of their respective indicators. Measurement 
      invariance across gender and nationality was confirmed. CONCLUSION: Sufficient 
      evidence was gathered to support the interpretation and use of the Brief RCOPE 
      measure. Coaches and sports psychologists could adopt the Brief RCOPE measure to 
      understand the mental or thought patterns of religious athletes based on 
      existential concerns or stress accrued from impending competitions to inform 
      appropriate religious coping interventions. This notwithstanding, the Minimum 
      Clinical Important Difference (MCID) of the Brief RCOPE should be further 
      investigated to enhance the utility of the instrument for use in 
      intervention-based studies.
CI  - Copyright (c) 2023 Agormedah, Quansah, Srem-Sai, Ankomah, Hagan and Schack.
FAU - Agormedah, Edmond Kwesi
AU  - Agormedah EK
AD  - Department of Business and Social Sciences Education, University of Cape Coast, 
      Cape Coast, Ghana.
FAU - Quansah, Frank
AU  - Quansah F
AD  - Department of Educational Foundations, University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.
FAU - Srem-Sai, Medina
AU  - Srem-Sai M
AD  - Department of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Sports, University of 
      Education, Winneba, Ghana.
FAU - Ankomah, Francis
AU  - Ankomah F
AD  - Department of Education and Psychology, University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, 
      Ghana.
AD  - Department of Education, SDA College of Education, Asokore-Koforidua, Ghana.
FAU - Hagan, John Elvis Jr
AU  - Hagan JE Jr
AD  - Department of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, University of Cape 
      Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana.
AD  - Neurocognition and Action-Biomechanics-Research Group, Faculty of Psychology and 
      Sports Science, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
FAU - Schack, Thomas
AU  - Schack T
AD  - Neurocognition and Action-Biomechanics-Research Group, Faculty of Psychology and 
      Sports Science, Bielefeld University, Bielefeld, Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230104
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - Front Psychol
JT  - Frontiers in psychology
JID - 101550902
PMC - PMC9846767
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Africa
OT  - athletes
OT  - coping mechanisms
OT  - factor analysis
OT  - religion
OT  - reproducibility
COIS- The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any 
      commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential 
      conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2023/01/24 06:00
MHDA- 2023/01/24 06:01
PMCR- 2023/01/04
CRDT- 2023/01/23 05:09
PHST- 2022/09/06 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/11/17 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/01/23 05:09 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/01/24 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/01/24 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2023/01/04 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1038202 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Front Psychol. 2023 Jan 4;13:1038202. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1038202. 
      eCollection 2022.