The Leisure Attitude Scale: psychometrics properties of a short version for adolescents and young adults

Abstract

It is crucial to study the components of attitudes to leisure because positive attitudes tend to be associated with greater engagement in leisure. The aim of this article was to develop and validate a short version of the Leisure Attitude Scale (Ragheb M. G., & Beard, J. G. (1982). Measuring leisure attitude. Journal of Leisure Research, 14(2), 155–167) and evaluate its psychometric properties. A total of 542 adolescents and young adults participated in this study. The Leisure Attitude Scale-Short Version (LAS-SV) showed good reliability and validity. The confirmatory factor analysis presented acceptable values and confirmed the factorial structure of Ragheb and Beard (1982).

Les attitudes positives ont tendance à être associée à un plus grand engagement aux loisirs. L'objectif de cet article est de développer et de valider une version courte de l’échelle des Attitudes du Loisir (LAS; Ragheb et Beard, 1982), afin d’évaluer les propriétés psychométriques. Un total de 542 adolescents et jeunes adultes ont participé à cette étude. La version courte de l’échelle des Attitudes du Loisir à montrer une bonne fiabilité et validité. L'analyse factorielle présente des valeurs acceptables et confirmer la structure factorielle de Ragheb et Beard (1982).

Keywords:

• leisure attitudes
• measurement
• confirmatory factor analysis
• reliability
• validity

Mots-clés:

• attitudes loisirs
• la mesure
• l'analyse factorielle
• fiabilité
• validité

Acknowledgements

The authors thank Gabriela Matias for her assistance in the English revision of this manuscript. The authors thank Dr. Ragheb and Dr. Beard, the authors of the attitude leisure scale, and Mr. Tom Blaschko, from Idyll Arbor, for their permission to reproduce items of the original scale (Ragheb & Beard, 1982)