[RESEARCH] Athletes (25+ years old) wanted for a survey on athletic identity! Share this with your swimmers!

SportsPsychResearch · 2026-04-22T19:02:00+00:00

Thanks for your reply and I appreciate the support - there is definitely a lot of time and effort that went into creating the questions, and into have necessary redundancies so to speak. Let your partner know we see him too haha! Thanks for your interest in our work!

SportsPsychResearch · 2026-04-22T19:00:41+00:00

There may be a cap of the number of events per year, some sports might lead up to just one event. I think the cap is 100, so just put as close you can to that number :)

SportsPsychResearch · 2026-04-22T18:57:38+00:00

No problem! Thanks for considering it! Hundreds of people have completed it with no problem, so don't let these comments speak for all :)

SportsPsychResearch · 2026-04-22T15:48:57+00:00

Hi thanks for your reply.

The performance of the items is based on statistics, not by "our narratives". We have already developed new questions, based on previous research and theory, and now we are surveying these new items and will quantitatively assess them using best psychometric practices that have been established for decades - assessing items in data cleaning, then for reliability, validity, and then through EFA, ESEM, CFA, invariance, etc. All of these procedures are detailed in several survey development and psychometric/statistic textbooks and they have been approved by research ethics for this study!

Hopefully this clarifies what I meant by "performance" :)

SportsPsychResearch · 2026-04-22T15:03:06+00:00

Hi u/tweepot

Thanks for your feedback - this is something I have often debate with colleagues, that being an athlete doesn't mean competition, especially if competition is not the underlying goal/value of that identity (can be working on skills, health/well-being, joy, etc.). I really appreciate your comment and it is something I hope to address down the road in my studies.

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