Assessing Reinvestment Tendencies in Athletes: Psychometric Validation of Decision- and Movement-Specific Reinvestment Scales
PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS, 2026 (SSCI, Scopus)
- Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
- Basım Tarihi: 2026
- Doi Numarası: 10.1177/00315125261434061
- Dergi Adı: PERCEPTUAL AND MOTOR SKILLS
- Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, Periodicals Index Online, CINAHL, EBSCO Education Source, Education Abstracts, Educational research abstracts (ERA), EMBASE, MEDLINE, MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo, SportDiscus, MLA International Bibliography, Social Sciences Abstracts, Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO), Social Science Premium Collection (ProQuest), Biomedical Reference Collection: Corporate Edition (EBSCO), Education Source Ultimate (EBSCO), Health Research Premium Collection (ProQuest), Sociology Source Ultimate (EBSCO)
- Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet
Özet
Reinvestment Theory proposes that excessive conscious control over movement execution or decision making can disrupt automaticity and contribute to performance breakdown under pressure. Despite its clinical relevance in sport psychology, culturally validated measures of reinvestment remain limited. This study examined the psychometric properties of adapted versions of the Decision-Specific Reinvestment Scale (DSRS) and Movement-Specific Reinvestment Scale (MSRS) in a sample of athletes and physically active individuals. Participants were 259 undergraduate sport science students (M-age = 20.34 years). Data were analyzed using item discrimination indices, confirmatory factor analyses, convergent validity tests, and internal consistency estimates. Item-level analyses supported the removal of one item from each scale. The resulting DSRS comprised 12 items across two factors (decision reinvestment and decision rumination), and the MSRS comprised nine items across two factors (conscious motor processing and movement self-consciousness). Both scales demonstrated acceptable to good reliability and evidence of factorial and convergent validity. These findings support the use of the adapted DSRS and MSRS as clinically informative tools for assessing vulnerability to performance disruptions under pressure in sport and performance settings.