THE DEVELOPMENT THE THAI VERSION OF THE ATHLETE MINDFULNESS QUESTIONNAIRE
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.14456/jsst.2023.5Keywords:
Mindfulness, individual athletes, Team athletesAbstract
To develop a Thai version of the Mindfulness in Athlete Questionnaire and use it to compare mindfulness differences between team and individual athletes participating in the Thai University Games.The researcher used the back translation method to translate Chun-Qing Zhang's mindfulness questionnaire to determine the reliability of the questionnaire according to Cronbach's alpha reliability method. The sample consisted of 30 athletes and team and individual athletes who participated in the 47th University Games of Thailand, a total of 155 people, consisting of 99 (63.9%) males and 56(36.1%), females with an average age of 20.9 ± 1.8 years, were 108 (69.7%) team athletes and 47 (30.3%) individual athletes.
The confidence level of all 16 questionnaires was 0.89, indicating that the questionnaires were consistent. When divided into the present-moment attention and the awareness, it was found to be greater than 0.71, corresponding to 0.77 and 0.80, respectively. The acceptance aspect was less than 0.71, corresponding to 0.68, since the question in item 16 had a distribution of only 0.22. If item 16 was removed, the confidence was increased to 7.18 and the questionnaire's confidence for all 15 items was 0.88 when the questionnaire was used to assess differences between groups of teams and individual athletes. It was found that the mean scores of teams and individual athletes were not statistically different. Team athletes had higher average scores than individual athletes in all three aspects. The Thai version of the questionnaire on mindfulness in athletes. The confidence value is in the range of excellent criteria. This questionnaire contains 15 questions, that can be used to assess the mindfulness level of general athletes, and when studying the differences between team and individual athletes. It was found that there was no difference in all 3 aspects.
(Journal of Sports Science and Technology 2023; 23(1):66-76)
(Received: 28 December 2022, Revised: 27 March 2023, Accepted: 31 March 2023)
Keyword: Mindfulness / individual athletes/ Team athletes
*Corresponding author: Phavadol RAKTAVEE
Department of Sport Science, Faculty of Physical Education,
Srinakharinwirot University, THAILAND.
e-mail: spphavadol@gmail.com
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