Psychometric Issues in Organizational Stressor Research: A Review and Implications for Sport Psychology

Abstract

Organizational stressors can potentially elicit a number of undesirable consequences for sport performers. It is, therefore, imperative that psychologists better understand the demands that athletes encounter via their exploration and assessment. However, although researchers have identified a wide range of organizational stressors in competitive sport, they have yet to develop a measure or indicator to assess them. In contrast, scholars in other psychology subdisciplines have designed measures of organizational-related stressors, which have the potential to inform the advancement of stress research in sport. The purpose of this article is, therefore, to review psychometric issues in organizational stressor research and discuss the implications for sport psychology. The narrative is divided into four main areas: conceptual and theoretical issues, item development issues, measurement and scoring issues, and analytical and statistical issues.

Keywords:

• athletic
• demands
• indicator
• measurement
• occupational
• stress

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

This research was supported in part by funding from Lane4 Management Group Ltd.