The multicollinearity between youth sport environment questionnaire and team assessment diagnostic measurement in sport settings

Abstract

With interdisciplinary effort, shared mental model from organizational psychology has been introduced in recent years. Even though the concept of shared mental model is established in sport psychology, it still has an operational problem. That is, different researchers have used different measures. The purpose of this research was to examine the multicollinearity between the Team Assessment Diagnostic Measurement (TADM) questionnaire, which measures shared mental model, and the Youth Sport Environment Questionnaire (YSEQ), which measures group cohesion. The participants were competitive youth soccer players. TADM and YSEQ were measured at the end of the season. Findings showed that the TADM was highly correlated with task cohesion (r = 0.81) even though VIF did not indicate multicollinearity. Therefore, TADM should be used with caution. Also, based on the definition of the shared mental model, Pathfinder or card sorting is recommended rather than using questionnaires.