Achievement Goals across Persistence—Validation of the Spanish Version of the Motivational Persistence Scale.
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2022
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International Journal of Environmental research and Public Health
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Abstract: Background: An important aspect of achievement goals is the persistence and determination
that the person possesses in order to achieve it. Spain does not have an adequate instrument for
its measurement. First, this article had the aim of adapt and validate the Motivational Persistence
Scale of Constantin et al. in a Spanish population and athletes. Second, it had the aim of prove the
relationship with deliberate practice and performance. Methods: In this study, 384 university students
participated, where the factor structure was analyzed by means of a Confirmatory Factor Analysis
(CFA). In study 2 of 169 athletes was used to confirm its validity in a homogeneous population and
its predictive capacity on the hours of deliberate practice (DP) and performance. Results: The AFC
showed a two-factor structure, reducing the original three-factor structure, presenting a good fit
in both Spanish and homogeneous population of athletes and achieving a significant predictive
capacity on deliberate practice. The new dimensions were Purpose Pursuing (PP) and Recurrence of
Unattained Purposes (RUP). Conclusions: Overall, our results provide evidence that this scale could
be a useful tool for the assessment of Persistence in the Spanish adult and athlete population.
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Persistence, Validation, Reliability, Deliberate practice, Performance