Evaluation and Adaption of the Trier Inventory for Chronic Stress (TICS) for Assessment in Competitive Sports
- The demands of a career in competitive sports can lead to chronic stress perception among athletes if there is a non-conformity of requirements and available coping resources. The Trier Inventory for Chronic Stress (TICS) (Schulz et al., 2004) is said to be thoroughly validated. Nevertheless, it has not yet been subjected to a confirmatory factor analysis. The present study aims (1) to evaluate the factorial validity of the TICS within the context of competitive sports and (2) to adapt a short version (TICS-36). The total sample consisted of 564 athletes (age in years: M = 19.1, SD = 3.70). The factor structure of the original TICS did not adequately fit the present data, whereas the short version presented a satisfactory fit. The results indicate that the TICS-36 is an economical instrument for gathering interpretable information about chronic stress. For assessment in competitive sports with TICS-36, we generated overall and gender-specific norm values.
Author: | Jeffrey SallenORCiD, Florian Hirschmann, Christian Herrmann |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:bvb:739-opus4-5281 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00308 |
ISSN: | 1664-1078 |
Parent Title (English): | Frontiers in Psychology |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of Completion: | 2018 |
Date of Publication (online): | 2018/03/13 |
Date of first Publication: | 2018/03/13 |
Publishing Institution: | Universität Passau |
Release Date: | 2018/03/13 |
Tag: | Athletes; Chronic stressors; Factor analysis; Measurement invariance; Mental health; Olympic sports; Stress measurement |
Volume: | 9 |
Institutes: | Zentrale Einrichtungen |
open_access (DINI-Set): | open_access |
Funding Acknowledgement: | Gefördert durch den Open-Access-Publikationsfonds der Universitätsbibliothek Passau. |
Licence (German): | CC by: Creative Commons - Namensnennung |