Psychometric item evaluations of the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for athletes

Objectives: Using an item-based analysis, the factor structure of the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes (RESTQ-Sport) [Kellmann, M., & Kallus, K.W. (2001). Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes: User manual. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics] was assessed as a test of its validity. The RESTQSport is a 76-item questionnaire that was developed to assess the physical and mental impact of training stress and to facilitate the formulation of strategies for the enhancement of recovery. According to [Kellmann, M., & Kallus, K.W. (2001). Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for Athletes: User manual. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics], two factors: Recovery and Stress, comprised the 12 General subscales and seven Sport subscales of the RESTQ-Sport. Methods: A total of 585 male and female athletes who train at a Canadian national sport center were recruited to complete the RESTQ-Sport. Maximum likelihood factor analyses were performed. Results: The results confirmed the two-factor structure proposed by Kellmann and Kallus for the SportRecovery/Stress Scale but disconfirmed this structure for the General-Recovery/Stress Scale. Item analysis further disconfirmed the two-factor structure for the General Scale and failed to confirm the 19 Subscales proposed by the authors on both of the General and Sport Scales. see front matter r 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. psychsport.2006.10.003 ding author. Tel.: +1 403 262 3737; fax: +1 403 262 3738. ress: [email protected] (H. Davis IV). is article as: Davis, H.IV, et al. Psychometric item evaluations of the Recovery-Stress Questionnaire for athletes. Sport and Exercise, (2006), doi:10.1016/j.psychsport.2006.10.003