CROSS-CULTURAL VALIDATION OF THE TASK AND EGO ORIENTATION IN SPORT QUESTIONNAIRE

It is becoming increasingly important to determine whether structural models of measures of sport and activity behavior developed in North A merica are invariant across different populations. This study assessed (a) the cross-cultural validity of the Task and Ego Orientation in Sp ort Questionnaire (TEOSQ) using male college students across the Unite d States (n = 309), Thailand (n = 312), and Taiwan (n = 307); and Co) the factorial equivalence and structured latent mean differences of th e TEOS in these samples. Using a confirmatory factor analytic procedur e, the initial test of the hypothesized two-factor structure represent ing task and ego orientation yielded a good fit for each sample. The f actor structure was further shown to be metric invariant across the th ree countries. Furthermore, tests of latent means showed significant d ifferences between groups. The United States sample exhibited the high est levels of task and ego orientation, followed by the Taiwan and Tha iland samples, respectively.