Generalization of the psychosocial skills used in competitive sports for collegiate athletes:

The aims of this research were to develop a scale that can assess generalization the psychosocial skills used in competitive sports other life domains for collegiate athletes, and examine its characteristics related factors. In preliminary study, areas identified career selection, relationships, everyday life. Furthermore, 71 items representing 4 developed based on 10 dimensions required athletes (Shimamoto et al., 2013). reviewed by 8 experts confirm content validity. Subsequently, factor analysis was conducted using data collected from 262 participants (162 males 100 females) select list items. initial 40 extracted validity all developed. main total 391 university student (234 154 females, 3 not specified) asked respond questionnaire. survey included questions about socio-demographic (Ueno Nakagomi., 1998), 2013), factors (similarity action awareness possibilities). addition, they responded designed derived our studies. Confirmative indicated 10-factor structure with 30 Reliability verified terms internal consistency. Convergent confirmed correlations athletes. these results named “Generalization Scale Psychosocial Skills Collegiate Athletes” (GSPS-CA). demographic variables (gender, grade, individual or team events), gender grade differences observed some GSPS-CA, event any dimension. One-way ANOVA each dimension GSPS-CA revealed interaction