Reliability and Validity of the Turkish Version of the State Mindfulness Scale for Physical Activity in Young Adult Athletes

ABSTRACT

Mindfulness is growing in popularity with the potential to improve many favorable health outcomes. Physical activity (PA) is crucial for improving health, however, there is no Turkish scale to measure mindfulness during PA. The purpose of this study was to translate, culturally adapt, and validate the Turkish version of The State Mindfulness Scale for Physical Activity (SMS-PA-T). One hundred thirty-seven young adult athletes were included. The validity was determined using the Behavioral Regulation in Exercise Questionnaire-2 (BREQ-2) and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire-Short Form. The SMS-PA-T had a high-level internal consistency (α = 0.80) and test-retest reliability (ICC = 0.61 to 0.72 for subscales). The SMS-PA-T subscales were correlated with the BREQ-2 (r = 0.65 to 0.77, p < .005) indicating a good concurrent validity. The results show that the SMS-PA-T proved to be a valid and reliable scale for young adult athletes. The SMS-PA-T provides an easy-to-administer and useful tool to assess.

KEYWORDS:

• Athletes
• mindfulness
• motivation
• physical activity
• psychometrics

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank the participants of this study for their contribution to science.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Author contributions

Conceptualization: Yunus Emre Tütüneken, Yasemin Buran Çırak; Methodology: Kubra Kardes and Yunus Emre Tütüneken; Formal analysis and investigation: Pınar Van Der Veer; Writing – original draft preparation: Kubra Kardes, Yunus Emre Tütüneken and Pınar Van Der Veer; Writing – review and editing: Kubra Kardes, Yunus Emre Tütüneken, Pınar Van Der Veer and Yasemin Buran Çırak

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There are no linked data sets for this paper. The data is confidential since the participants of this study were informed upon admission to the hospital that the data would remain confidential and would not be shared with third parties.

Compliance with ethical standards

The Human Research Ethics Board of Istinye University approved the study (protocol number: 22–120) and the researchers administered it according to the Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects by the Helsinki Declaration.

Consent to participate

Both written and verbal consent were obtained from the participants before the study.

Consent for publication

It was obtained from the participant.

Registration

This study has been registered in ClinicalTrials.gov with registration number NCT05994222.

Supplementary material

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/1091367X.2024.2339807

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Funding

The author(s) reported there is no funding associated with the work featured in this article.