Abstract:

The aim of this study is to make the validity and reliability analyzes of the intrinsic leisure motivation scale and gain them to the literature. The research is based on the analysis conducted in the light of data collected from 748 students by test-retest method. The data were subjected to KMO-Barlett test with 353 participants and exploratory factor analysis was used after determining that sample size was suitable for analysis (.92; 3366, 957, p <0.001). A valid structure was tried to be established by exploratory factor analysis and a final scale form consisting of 5 sub-dimensions and 23 items was reached. As a result of exploratory factor analysis, the cut-off value was taken as .40, and the variance value was 57.53% in total. Item 7, which was found to give a load to each other from the scale items, was excluded from the test, and 5. Subdimension items were reverse coded. The test was tested by structure confirmatory factor analysis after the second data collection on 395 participants by retest method. Confirmatory factor analysis appears to provide evidence of construct validity (RMSEA .070, NFI 0.96, CFI 0.96, NNFI 0.96, x2 / df 2.94). As a result, the measurement tool developed to determine the participants' intrinsic leisure motivation has been put forward as a valid and reliable tool in measuring internal motivation for leisure.

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