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. 2023 Jul;21(3):246-252.
doi: 10.1016/j.jesf.2023.03.002. Epub 2023 Apr 4.

Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validation of the Spanish perceived physical literacy instrument for adolescents (S-PPLI)

José Francisco López-Gil  1   2   3 , Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno  4   5 , Pedro J Tárraga-López  6 , Antonio García-Hermoso  1
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Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability, and validation of the Spanish perceived physical literacy instrument for adolescents (S-PPLI)

José Francisco López-Gil et al. J Exerc Sci Fit. 2023 Jul.

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the reliability and validity of the Spanish Perceived Physical Literacy Instrument (S-PPLI) questionnaire in Spanish adolescents.

Method: The participants of this study were 360 Spanish adolescents (aged 12-17 years) from three secondary schools in the Region of Murcia (Spain). A cultural adaptation process of the original version of the PPLI questionnaire was developed. Confirmatory factor analysis was applied to test the three-factor structure of physical literacy. Intraclass correlation coefficients were computed to estimate the test-retest concordance.

Results: Using a confirmatory factor analysis, the factor loading of all items above the standard of 0.40 ranged from 0.53 to 0.77, suggesting that the observed variables sufficiently represented the latent variables. Analyses for convergent validity showed average variance extracted values that ranged from 0.40 to 0.52 and composite reliability values higher than 0.60. All the correlations were below the recommended cutoff point of 0.85, which indicated that the three physical literacy factors achieved adequate discriminant validity. Intraclass correlation coefficients ranged from 0.62 to 0.79 (p < 0.001 for all items), which indicated moderate/good reliability.

Conclusions: Our results suggest that the S-PPLI is a valid and reliable measure of physical literacy among Spanish adolescents.

Keywords: Physical activity; Physical education; Teenagers; Youths.

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The authors have no conflicts of interest relevant to this article.

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Factor loading of the three-factor model structure for the Spanish Physical Literacy Instrument.
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