Structural validity of the Serious Leisure Inventory & Measure (SLIM) in different sets of athletes

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to reaffirm the structural validity of the Serious Leisure Inventory and Measure (SLIM) measure model developed by Gould et al. and to compare the inventory model’s psychometric performance with the alternative SLIM inventory model developed by Romero et al. Target sampling of Sports Clubs in the Basque Country (Spain) yielded 370 athletes of which 138 had physical disabilities and 232 did not. The results showed that the data converged using the Gould et al. one-factor model and supported the use of the inventory of outcome factors as non-additive measures resulting from serious orientations to an activity. The alternative model tested by Romero et al. provided a three-factor solution with psychometrically sound performance. Further specification of the SLIM model could bolster future quantitative explorations of SL behavior.

Keywords:

• Sport
• serious leisure
• SLIM
• structural validity
• confirmatory factor analysis

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Notes

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