Part of the Team: The Social Identity Questionnaire for Sport Parents (SIQS-P)

ABSTRACT

Drawing from theory of the multidimensional nature of social identity, the purpose of this study was to assess an adapted measure of social identity in sport that captures the extent to which parents identify with their child’s team. Using the Social Identity Questionnaire for Sport (SIQS) with items specifically modified for parents, we assessed competitive youth sport parents’ perceptions of ingroup ties, cognitive centrality, and ingroup affect. Using an exploratory and confirmatory analysis process, a conceptually grounded three-factor structure was supported in a sample of 788 ice hockey parents. Measurement invariance testing found strong invariance for the measurement tool based on participants’ biological sex, previous sport experience, and proximal competition outcome. Finally, differences emerged when comparing latent means across their child’s most recent game outcome. Taken together, this study offers a novel tool to better understand and measure perceptions of social identity among sport parents.

KEYWORDS:

• Parents
• youth sport
• social identity
• measurement

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Supplementary material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/1091367X.2022.2092740

Notes

¹ As way of comparison, the bifactor model produces the same model fit as specifying an independent-clusters confirmatory factor analysis with correlated residuals among each of the three subscales model fit because the constraints produce the same general factor as in the bifactor model described above, χ2 (18) = 52.27, CFI = .99, TLI = .97, RMSEA = .06, 90% CI [.042, .080], SRMR = .03

Additional information

Funding

This work was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Insight Grant [number 435-2016-0591]